Bring 'Em On

To say "goodbye" to ralph, I am pulling two of the three songs we wrote and recorded that first night from the FINK vault.

Ralph's "late night after a bottle of wine" voice can be heard on "Even Though I Must Die With You" with me singing background vocals. And, after that, Ralph's hot basement trumpet on "Take Up Their Cross."

By 2 AM that morning we realized our voices had no business being on tape, so we pulled in Jenny Ramseth, the Bishop's daughter, to sing later that week.

The last conversation I had with Ralph was last week. I had a dozen new Bible verse songs to score, and he simply emailed the words:

"Bring 'em on!"

He was 55.