Multiple releases spanning multiple genres on Dead Oceans, Thrill Jockey, Drag City, American Tapes, and his own imprint-husky pants records. Ryley Walker is a guitarist and songwriter based in New York City. His most recent book is The Voice in the Headphones (Duke University Press, 2020). Had Primrose Green been recorded in the era its influenced by, it could well be among the records Ryley Walker would now be drawing inspiration from high praise indeed. Spencer Yeh, and Asha Shehadri, with whom we shared a bill on this lovely evening.ĭavid Grubbs was a member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and has performed with the Red Krayola, Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, Susan Howe, Will Oldham, and many others.
Prog-rock courses through its compositions, recorded with pristine sonics by. Course In Fable, the follow-up to 2018’s Deafman Glance, represents another stunning evolution in his sound. forthcoming as well as a tremendous Burt Jansch tribute show behind him, wherein his hero Anne Briggs called him the ‘c word’ Walker has rubbed shoulders with the very best. Walker claims that although Course In Fable fulfilled his desires to make a record on his own timescale and with his own money, on his own label, it wasn’t the album that he originally planned. Ryley Walker ended up in Vermont, running his nascent but growing label, Husky Pants and, as is his norm, recording and releasing a slew of new music. Having toured with the likes of Richard Thompson, and with a supporting slot for Dinosaur Jr. Recorded by Jack Callahan at The Windjammer, Ridgewood, Queens, June 29, 2019. His most recent album, Course in Fable, was released on his own Husky Pants Recordings label in 2021. This live recording from a broiling night at a neighborhood bar in Ridgewood, Queens documents their first duo performance. After digging one another’s recordings for some time, they started playing together-duo, quartet, whatever you got-in 2019. I think he will be just as visionary, though less hungry, but either way… this is the time to get on the Ryley Walker bandwagon.Grubbs and Walker are both guitar-playing former Chicagoans who’ve recorded for the Drag City label and currently live in New York. Almost all of our vinyl discs will include either an original inner sleeve, or a plain inner sleeve, or a printed inner sleeve, which we provide with the sole purpose of protecting the record. If the world catches on, the Ryley that follows up this album may be a different sort of person, one who knows the taste of better liquor and comfortable bedding and isn’t nearly as driven. A short lifetime of interminable practice and discipline have resulted in a masterpiece of an album, an album of a sort we haven’t seen since the 1970s. Here, with this record, we risk limiting his access to personal disaster by flirting with success. His personal life might be tumultuous and his residential status in question, but his bedrock is disciplined daily rehearsal and an inexhaustible wellspring of songcraft. Brand New Stock Shared joy and acoustics in rambling conversation, as two friends travel the continents via high-road, short-cut and their own paths, yet untravelled.
Available Bill MacKay, Ryley Walker - SpiderBeetleBee - Vinyl LP today. Swap out rural juke joints for rotted DIY spaces and the archetype is solidly intact. Buy Bill MacKay, Ryley Walker - SpiderBeetleBee - Vinyl LP online or in store today United Kingdom. That’s as much a testament to his roving, rambling ways, or the fact that his Guild D-35 guitar has endured a few stints in the pawnshop. Ryley Walker is the reincarnation of the true American guitar player.
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