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Ryley Walker ALBUM Primrose Green streaming until its 3/31 release at NPR. The venue/label was prudent enough to commit it all to tape for the world’s listening pleasure in the form of an album called Land of Plenty, which will be available on August 14. Nellie McKay My Weekly Reader Mini Mansions The Great Pretenders. Ryley Walker & Bill MacKay join forces for the advancement of instrumental guitar music News By Marty Slattery JTweet Anyone plotting the trajectory of folk troubador Ryley Walker would know his axis is way higher than 45 degrees at the moment. Some of the best music feels more like Polaroids than sounds a sonic snapshot of a moment and nobody captures that as well as Philly based The War On Drugs. A honed, deliberate affair that features mellifluous playing that makes subtle use of some long-standing. The War on Drugs: I Dont Live Here Anymore. They soon began meeting at Bill’s southwest Chicago home to write and improvise together on their lived.
Youll want to hear that too, so get there early to get a. The Whistler in Chicago is now planning to redecorate its crib in gold following a Ryley Walker residency in January, which culminated in a weekly folk freak-out jam with other Chicago musicians like Bill MacKay (Darts and Arrows). Following their previous collaboration (2016’s Land Of Plenty) which comprised of live tracks assembled from a residency in Chicago, Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker’s second album SpiderBeetleBee is a more focused studio-based outing. Chicago-based guitarists Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker first met in January 2014 at a friend’s birthday party where they discovered a mutual admiration for Albert King, Laura Nyro, Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, Ali Akbar Khan and Jimi Hendrix. We are the second of two groups, the first set will be the Bill McKay/Katinka Kleijn Duo, at 9pm.
With his much fancied Primrose Green record but a few months old and bootlegs of his ever-evolving live show solidifying his solid gold standard, it’s hard to not imagine Walker dressed as Midas and touching loads of random objects in 2015. By combining forces, Walker and MacKay do nothing less than dazzle with interlocking melodies and modes that can carry your spirit away or stir up long dormant memories.Anyone plotting the trajectory of folk troubador Ryley Walker would know his axis is way higher than 45 degrees at the moment. The former is a versatile and striving player who has collaborated with Haley Fohr (aka Circuit Des Yeux) and Tortoise member Doug McCombs among many others, while the latter is best know for his singer-songwriter material. It’s progenitors seem to multiplying exponentially, as do the number of labels willing to disseminate their finger-picked wonders to the globe.Ĭhicago imprint Drag City has been in this game for a while now, and they’ve turned up another gem of subdued beauty and instrumental prowess with the recent release of, a duo album from guitarists Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker. live at Union Pool - Chuck Johnson NYCTaper recording made at Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY, April 12. studio version on Deafman Glance (Dead Oceans) 5. The sustained boom time for players and fans of American Primitive Guitar music has been something to behold. 'Telluride Speed' - Ryley Walker Ryley Walker (guitar)/Bill McKay (guitar)/Ryan Jewell (drums)/Scott Colberg (bass) NYCTaper recording made at Bowery Ballroom, New York City, NY, April 29, 2018. Like the LP, this is an instrumental show except for one surprising cover song (Ill let you. This concert was on the same day as the release of their most recent collaboration, SpiderBeetleBee on Drag City Records. Daily Dose is your daily source for the song you absolutely, positively need to hear every day. Ryley Walker and Bill MacKay have worked together for years, both as part of Ryleys touring band as well as a recording duo.