Jim Ramsey is a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based singer/songwriter whose romantic, Celtic-tinged contemporary folk music blends British progressive rock sensibiliti
The song was inspired by a touching story a friend told me about how the seagulls he saw after being diagnosed with brain cancer (which later went into remission) made a deep impression on him regarding the preciousness of life. I then connected the story to a reflection of my own life's course to that point, hence the reference to "the streets of London" and "the fields of Hixson," which a are meaningful places I had been in growing up. The song is sung here as a duet with Unita Akins.
