
Chickie Wah Wah Presents
Willis Alan RamseyPaul Sanchez
Thu, 4 Jun, 8:00 PM CDT
Doors open
7:00 PM CDT
Chickie Wah Wah
2828 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70119
Description
Online advance ticket pricing is always lower than walkup ticket pricing.
Event Information
Age Limit
18+
eTicket Delivery
Your tickets will be e-mailed closer to the event date.
Refund Policy
All tickets are non-refundable.

Americana
Willis Alan Ramsey
Willis Alan Ramsey
Americana
Over 50 years after the release of his wildly influential self-titled album on Leon Russell's
Shelter Records, Willis Alan Ramsey returns to touring Ramsey's debut in 1972 earned scores of accolades from artists ranging from The Allman Brothers to Lyle Lovett. The album was mined by many artists for their own recordings including Jimmy Buffett's "The Ballad of Spider John", Jimmie Dale Gilmore's "Goodbye Old Missoula",. Shawn Colvin's "Satin Sheets", Captain & Tennille's "Muskrat Candlelight/Love", Jerry Jeff Walker's "Northeast Texas Women", Waylon Jennings' "Satin Sheets", New Grass Revival's "Watermelon Man", and many more.
Since that landmark first release, Ramsey has toured only occasionally, spending time instead with his family, honing his craft in Austin, Nashville and London, educating himself in the science of audio recording and composing new songs. His new material has received critical acclaim, including Lyle Lovett's recordings of "Sleepwalkin', "North Dakota" and "That's
Right (You're Not From Texas"), as well as Eric Clapton's recording of "Positively" Ramsey's infrequent personal appcarances always garner excitement among some of the top critics in the country as well as from his fellow artists:
"His cozy, orderly, tiny-detail songs express a willful turnabout from hippie chaos, a visceral reaction particular to the early 1970's. His songs are sweet, emotionally guarded and often musically complex, fitting strains of melody together that seem as if they ought not connect, expertly using rhythmic displacement as the words and chords unspool .... Perfection is terrifying, and some of these songs felt spooky." - Ben Ratliff, The New York Times
"You might have not seen him lately, but if you've listened to Shawn, Lyle or Jimmie Dale, you've heard him." - John T. Davis, The Austin American Statesman
"Even if Ramsey had made a dozen more albums, this would still be the record that no home should be without." - No Depression
"When I got his record, I loved everything on it. I heard some Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner in there. It was a little more literary than most of the Texas stuff." - Jimmy Buffett
"Everybody owned his record when I lived in Austin. That's because it's great and them Texans knew it. I think Lyle's great, but tell me he didn't learn something from Willis." - Shawn Colvin
"I learned every song off his record. I went to sce him every time he played, got tennis shoes like his. I wanted to be Willis Alan Ramsey." - Lyle Lovett

Music
Paul Sanchez
Paul Sanchez
Music
Paul began playing music in New Orleans at the age of fifteen, on Jackson Square and in bars around the French Quarter.
He lived in New York in the 80s and learned the art of songwriting as part of the Anti-Folk scene in the East Village.
Paul spent the 90s and early 2000s making 11 albums and touring with New Orleans rockers, Cowboy Mouth. Still, after losing his home and possessions in the aftermath of Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans, he left the band he had helped form in 1992 and went home to New Orleans to rebuild his life.
Sanchez has 22 solo releases, beginning with Jet Black and Jealous in 1992.
His 22nd release, Mercy, My Sweet, was released in the summer of 2025.