From album Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, 1975. <br /> <br />Crosscut Saw were a top draw blues-rock band in Tallahassee, Florida in the mid- to late '70s. The band was led by two charismatic frontmen Pat Ramsey, a gifted harmonica wiz and singer, and lead guitarist Julien Kasper. <br /> <br />Ramsey was from Shreveport, LA, and began playing harmonica at 17. After hitchhiking around the U.S. for a couple of years, Ramsey ended up in Denver, in 1973, where he joined the Bunny Brooks Blues Band. After contributing blues harp to Johnny Winter's White Hot & Blue album, Ramsey joined Butch Trucks' Florida-based Trucks band. Eventually moving to Tallahassee, Ramsey met a teen-aged Julien Kasper and formed Crosscut Saw. <br /> <br />Kasper had fallen in love with the blues early, but had only owned an electric guitar for a year when Crosscut Saw was formed, but his Jimi Hendrix-styled showmanship on-stage (not to mention his considerable chops), coupled with Ramsey's singing and harmonica, made the band a top draw in clubs and bars all up and down the Eastern Seaboard. <br /> <br />Crosscut Saw played the circuit for five years or so, and released a single album, Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, on the independent Surprise label in 1975. <br /> <br />Ramsey and Kasper stayed in touch after the group disbanded, and their annual Crosscut Saw reunions are still a big draw in Tallahassee. <br /> <br />In 2005 Akarma Records re-released Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know on CD.
