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Published on November 6, 2025
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Following September’s announcement of their collaborative debut album Celestun, singer-songwriter-guitarists Tyler Ramsey and Carl Broemel are excited to share the second pair of singles from the forthcoming release, the stunning instrumental track “Elizabeth Brown” and a brilliant cover of Neil Young’s “Sail Away,” both out now.
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Having been friends and occasional touring partners for well over a decade, Celestun, out January 15, 2026, on their own Duo Quest Records via Tone Tree Music, encapsulates the duo’s singular camaraderie, merging My Morning Jacket guitarist Broemel’s classically trained virtuosity with Ramsey’s nimble fingerstyle picking to create a predominantly instrumental song cycle recorded almost entirely on acoustic guitars. “Elizabeth Brown” and “Sail Away” follow the release of the album’s first two singles, “Celestun” and “Nevermind.”
“Elizabeth Brown” was the first instrumental song Ramsey ever wrote, originally appearing on his 2004 solo debut. Having performed the song together on tour in the past, Ramsey and Broemel decided it would be fun to revisit and record a new version featuring both of them for Celestun.
The pair also wanted to include a cover on the album and ultimately landed on Neil Young’s “Sail Away,” an underappreciated gem from his 1977 Oceanside/Countryside sessions that later appeared on the acoustic side of 1979’s landmark Rust Never Sleeps. “Carl and I have both been on stage with Neil and had the chance to play songs with him,” says Ramsey. “We both have our own little Neil Young connection that we thought would be fun to celebrate.”
Young has long been a profound influence on both artists, and “Sail Away” is among their favorite songs of his, making it a natural choice for the record. “Neil Young is such a huge part of everything that I love,” adds Broemel. “I don’t know if he’ll ever hear our version, but to me, it feels like our tribute to him and all that he’s given to us.
Last month, Ramsey had the privilege of joining 2025’s Harvest Moon Gathering benefiting The Painted Turtle and The Bridge School, joining Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts, Beck, Lana Del Rey and more for a truly inspiring evening of music and community.
Following the release of their album, the duo will embark on a 26-city tour, kicking off on January 16 at the 30A Songwriters Festival in Santa Rosa Beach, FL making stops across the country. All dates listed below.
TYLER RAMSEY / CARL BROEMEL – “CELUSTUN TOUR” DATES:
JANUARY 2026
16-17 – Santa Rosa Beach, FL – 30A Songwriters Festival
18 – Atlanta, GA – Eddie’s Attic
20 – Birmingham, AL – Saturn
21 – Mobile, AL- Callaghan’s Irish Social Pub
22-23 – New Orleans, LA- Folk Alliance International
25 – Denver, CO – Swallow Hill Music
26 – Boulder, CO – eTown Hall
29 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
30 – Portland, OR – Portland’s Folk Festival
31 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
FEBRUARY 2026
2 – Felton, CA – Felton Music Hall
4 – Pioneertown, CA – Pappy & Harriet’s
6 – Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room
7 – Ojai, CA – Ojai Deer Lodge
9 – Phoenix, AZ – Musical Instrument Museum
11 – Nashville, TN – The Basement East
12 – Louisville, KY – The Whirling Tiger
13 – Evanston, IL – SPACE
18 – Westerly, RI – The UNITED Theatre
19 – Albany, NY – Lark Hall
20 – Woodstock, NY – Levon Helm Studios
21 – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
22 – Philadelphia, PA – MilkBoy
24 – Vienna, VA – Jammin Java
26 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
27-28 – Asheville, NC – The Grey Eagle
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Best known of course as guitarist in My Morning Jacket, Louisville, KY’s Carl Broemel has released a series of solo recordings over the past two decades, as well as such collaborative efforts as …Thanks Y’all, a 2023 live album recorded over five shows performed with Athens, GA’s Futurebirds. Meanwhile, Asheville, NC-based singer-songwriter-guitarist Tyler Ramsey has earned praise for his former role as songwriter and lead guitarist in Band of Horses as well as an evolving solo body of work that includes 2024’s acclaimed New Lost Ages, hailed by Americana UK as “a gentle indie-folk gem.”
The two first met when Band of Horses supported My Morning Jacket on tour in 2012. Broemel marveled at Ramsey’s technique, the sound, chord voicings, and deep feelings he would pull out of his guitar. They discussed recording during a pair of well-received 2019 tours together, but were challenged to find times when both were free from other obligations. The stars finally lined up during the pandemic, the compulsory lockdown allowing them to begin exchanging tracks.
“Since we were both at home, we started sending songs back and forth, and the album just kind of built from there,” Broemel says. “Tyler would send me one track of guitar, I sat with it and then wrote a whole other guitar part that just kind of weaved in and out of what he did. We kept doing it and slowly accumulated more and more pieces of music.”
“I sent him a couple of songs that I was messing around with,” Tyler Ramsey says, “and when he sent back his ideas on top of them, it was just magical. Like, exactly what was needed to fill in the spaces that needed to be filled in.”
In 2024, Broemel and Ramsey returned to the project in person at Broemel’s home in Nashville. Though conceived and begun in the most modern way possible, the album has the feel of a lost private stock classic akin to the work of iconic acoustic guitarists like Clarence White, John Fahey, Michael Hedges, Leo Kottke, Bert Jansch, and John Renbourn. Stark yet intricately arranged pieces such as “In The Willows” and “Elizabeth Brown” are rich with a great depth of feeling and artistic invention, expertly encapsulating the two veteran guitarist-songwriters’ mutual admiration and effortless compatibility. Music at its most elemental, with Celestun, Broemel, and Ramsey strip away artifice to unlock and explore deeply personal themes of wanderlust and familial love, of the bonds of friendship and the gradual accumulation of creative ideas.
“We don’t step on each other’s toes,” says Broemel, “we kind of fit together like puzzle pieces. Maybe that sounds grandiose, but that’s how it feels to me when we’re playing. We don’t even have to talk about it.”
“We just mesh together in a way that I can’t even really explain,” says Ramsey. “I feel like there’s some magical connection between our two things, it just makes me smile and satisfies some itch as far as things that I would like to hear on the music that I write. I think he feels the same way about what I do. When I put a part to one of his songs, we both have this feeling like that was exactly what was missing.”
