When Old Dominon's Matthew Ramsey took the stage to accept the band's group of the year win at the 2023 ACM Awards in May, he did so with some kind words for his bandmates — and a cane.
"Thank you to my friends here for holding me up when I needed it," Ramsey said, referring to an ATV accident that sidelined him earlier this year with a broken pelvis.
Flash forward a month and lead singer Ramsey, 45, is all but healed from his injury, but still leaning on bandmates Trevor Rosen, a multi-instrumentalist, guitarist Brad Tursi, bassist Geoff Sprung and drummer Whit Sellers.
"We were friends long before we were a band and there was a moment where we consciously sat down and said, 'The goal here is to be friends when it's over,'" he tells FOCUS NEWS . "We have a friend that says we're a self-policing organization. So when one guy's getting a little too full of himself, we bring him right back down. Or if on the same wave somebody's feeling low, we pull them up.
