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2:27am in Austin | A Conversation with Ramsay Midwood at Sam's Town Point | Ep 77
Episode 77
Tuesday, 26 May, 2026
It's 2:27 in the morning on a Saturday night in Austin, Texas. The crowd has cleared out. The band has packed up. And Ramsay Midwood and I sit in a dark corner of Sam's Town Point — talking. I'd been listening to Ramsay's music for five or six years before I ever made it down there. Found him on Boot Liquor Radio — part of the Soma FM family of deep-cut internet stations — and I couldn't stop. That voice. Those lyrics. Funny, sharp, sometimes quietly heartbreaking. Beautifully crooked snapshots of America. Five years of telling myself: one day I'm going to Austin to see this guy. What I thought would be a twenty-minute conversation turned into more than an hour. His childhood outside Washington D.C. — raised by a father who went to college on a music scholarship but found his true calling as a novelist and poet, and a mother who was a painter. Theater at James Madison University. The Steppenwolf in Chicago. Los Angeles. A house fire. And a wrong turn on the way to a Super Bowl party that somehow changed everything. Sam's Town Point has been a South Austin institution since 1981. Tucked off Slaughter Lane in a residential corner of the city — you'd never know it's there unless someone brought you. Ramsay stumbled in for open mic night in 2002. By 2017 he owned the place. Not a bar owner. Not a businessman. A musician who took a wrong turn and never left. And somewhere along the way — I think I made a friend. 🎵 Ramsay Midwood music — Listen to him on Spotify, Apple Music, or wherever you listen. Start with Shootout at the OK Chinese Restaurant (2002). 🎬 Matt Farrell & the Teenie Genie — referenced in this conversation, and worth every minute: 📺 More creative work from Ramsay, his band, and the scene at Sam's Town Point — Farmwire on YouTube: 🏠 Sam's Town Point 2115 Allred Dr, Austin TX 78748 (512) 965-6028 Music & Event Calendar Sam's Town Point on Facebook Journeys with WorldRider is a video podcast about the people, places, music, and moments worth seeking out. New episodes when the story demands it.
