![]() ![]() He keys into both the despondent tone and genre-melting style of Matthews’ music at the time, salvaging and reimagining a record he loves. The singer-guitarist takes a new, rangy, proggy direction with an artful touch, finding some psychedelic wisdom between the profound and the mundane. Walker was a DMB fan growing up in Rockford, Illinois, so this is a loving interpretation, with not a wink of parody intended. shows May 18 The Chapel San Francisco, CA May 21 Kuumbwa Jazz Center Santa Cruz, CA Jul 27 Judson & Moore Chicago, IL Jul 28 Judson & Moore Chicago, IL Jul 30 Union Pool Brooklyn, NY discography Fried In Denver Apr 2023 Bird Bath Apr 2023 Flops In NYC Apr 2023 more releases. Ryley Walker Announces New Album, Shares Lead Single Rang Dizzy Photo by Evan Jenkins On April 2, Ryley Walker will drop Course In Fable, a follow up to his 2018 solo release Deafman Glance. Ryley Walker has walked an interesting musical path since his last solo release of Deafman Glance in 2018 but more importantly he is celebrating a new beginning of sorts in 2021 with sobriety after a long time of addiction and a suicide attempt in 2019. Onstage at Brooklyn’s Union Pool during a flash-flood filled August Saturday, Ryley Walker invites the packed room to come visit him in Chicago and stay on his couch. Tucked inside that venerable assemblage was a song by the Dave Mathews Band, a nod to Walker’s latest project, The Lillywhite Sessions (due out in November), a song-for-song interpretation of Matthews’ unfinished-but-widely bootlegged LP of the same name from around 2000. Walker recently showed off his Deep Nineties erudition with a Spotify playlist called “van jams,” complete with songs by the likes of Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Bailter Space and Gastr Del Sol, along with bedrock stuff like R.E.M. ![]() Ryley Walker is a fluid guitar player whose songs rarely take you in any expected direction and a proud torch-bearer for the vaunted croon-through-your-beard school of indie-rock singer-songwriters. His very fine 2018 LP Deafman Glance is definitely worth your time, setting warmly abstruse mumblings to delicate avant-woodsy guitar magic, updating the Nineties experimentalism of David Grubbs, Jim O’Rourke and Smog’s Bill Callahan the way those guys modernized John Fahey, Sandy Bull and Michael Hurley for the post-Slint era. Ryley Walker’s upcoming release, Primrose Green, is a collection of down-home, folk-rock fingerpicking, wispy Chicago jazz, and just a shot of Americana that will make you feel like you are embarking on an adventure down the winding Ol’ Rock River on which Walker grew up. ![]()
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