Ryley Walker (Jansch-style vocals, finger-picking folk guitar with double bass and violins grooves)

New album All Kinds of You is pretty good

What do you think?

I can see some people saying it's pretty derivative, and offers nothing new, but I'm a huge fan of this type of sound, so ya.

He's on Spotify

We've discussed him some on this thread-
Revolt of the ILX Brigade: New Post-Fahey Folk For PPL that post in the Takoma & Tompkin's Square Threads

crap, sorry. when i searched i didn't include posts, just thread titles. you can delete or close this

well, i don't see the need for that! maybe people will enjoy him having a thread of his own. don't worry.

Awesome. I just read that he was touring with Cloud Nothings? Why do a lot of different bands and musicians I like end up playing with each other somehow even though they have different tastes. It happens a lot to me.

Different sounds*

he's good! easy to point out the influences, but i don't know, he does the style really well. and he's a hell of a guitarist.
i like that there's a less wispy approach to this genre, which is what most of the Nick Drake acolytes from the last decade or so have latched on to.

the Tim Buckley influence here is enormous.

specifically, i'm referring to what i've heard of Primrose Green.

Kinda surprised more people aren't talking about this album. It's great. Definitely check him out live. His band is fantastic. Closest I can imagine to seeing Tim Buckley circa Happy Sad.

The 1968 Buckleyisms were what put me off this record: it seemed so derivative it was almost pastiche.

I guess not being super familiar with Buckley helps, as that doesn't bother me at all. I absolutely love this record. More than anything else, I was picking up a John Martyn vibe.

yeah i get more of a Martyn thing from the vocals (though Buckley is certainly in the mix). pastiche complaints are valid, but i just enjoy it regardless.

this record rules

Agreed about this, I think it's a great record and that the backing band is hot shit. The Buckley vibe doesn't bother me in the least. I also hear a bit of Nick Drake in parts. I'm seeing him at Solid Sound this year. I sincerely hope he has his band with him, but I doubt it.

the hot shit drummer is my teacher!! he's awesome. apparently they only had one rehearsal the day before they recorded the album? i had no idea he was on it until for some reason i looked him up to see what he was up to and saw he was playing with RW and then i read this

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/ryley-walker-primrose-green-guitar-dead-oceans-bachman/Content?oid=16985488

this record rules

― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, May 7, 2015 5:49 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've already said it in two other threads but yeah I fucking love this album

Yeah really like it, need to get a physical copy.
Do like the mix of influences.
Incidentally just noticed earlier this week that Terry Reid's River is in his Original Album series 5cd set. Think that lp would fit in with the Buckley, Martyn and Drake already mentioned. As would Van Morrison around Moondance/Veedon Fleece.

overall, i'm really warming to this album. some of the arrangements are terrific, and i actually think that the spectrum of artists he is choosing to draw influence from is quite refreshing. in addition to the loose, windy Buckley-isms, i'm hearing Bert Jansch in the vocal delivery, which is appealing. and yeah, plenty of John Martyn, definitely.

in fact, the first thing that the album title reminded me of -- before i'd heard a note of the music -- was Jansch's Rosemary Lane.

also just realised that there's a p4k review for this album that completely misses the point.

this record rules

― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, May 7, 2015 12:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:) this makes me happy i think i've always hoped either tyler or ryley could break out of the ilx brigade post fahey ghetto

Can't get out without a y in yr name

stevey gunn too

this record rules

― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, May 7, 2015 12:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:) this makes me happy i think i've always hoped either tyler or ryley could break out of the ilx brigade post fahey ghetto

― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, May 8, 2015 3:01 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for a moment i thought you meant they were ilx'ers

No, probably just that they're not quite as unsung as they were. Not sure how well known they would be still. Do know that there is a Riley Walker track on the Paul Weller chosen tracklisting for the current Mojo cd Beyond Saturn.
I'm still not sure how well known anything would be. I don't frequent coffee shops or anything so not sure how likely they would be to be onplaylists for things like that if taht would actually be widespread in itself. Also don't listen to radio.

I still don't really know how recognised pretty much anything would be. Like is Jeff Buckley really widely known by the general public, not just people who actually seek out music. or how well known somebody like Nick Cave would be, or Paul Weller since its his mix on that cd I mentioned. I guess the Jam would be pretty well known but is that only by people of a certain age who still care about music and is that itself marginalised?

Anyway do like taht record.

THe first live set I've come across by him has just appeared on Dime
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=529845

it's a bit quiet but is at least a live recording. Think it is at least listenable.

Oh man you gotta head here: http://www.nyctaper.com/2015/03/ryley-walker-march-15-2015-babys-all-right-flacmp3alacstreaming-set/

Also here http://www.nyctaper.com/2014/10/ryley-walker-september-6-2014-hopscotch-music-festival-fletcher-opera-theater-raleigh-nc-flacmp3full-set-streaming/

And here http://www.nyctaper.com/2015/02/ryley-walker-january-13-2015-babys-all-right-flacmp3streaming/

Haven't listened to all of them, but NYCTaper almost always has high-quality recordings sound-wise.

yeah nyc taper has all the walker live stuff you need.

Cool, been wondering why there hasn't been more appearing on Dime etc

Here you go Stevolende, another new full-band set put up:

http://www.nyctaper.com/2015/06/ryley-walker-june-26-2015-le-poisson-rouge-flacalacmp3streaming/

Have at it.

I saw him with this band at Solid Sound this weekend. It was an amazing, soulful set. I just wish it wasn't at noon. It was more of a late night set. The band is quite something.

nyc taper set is pretty great!

thanks for posting. LPR show was fantastic. perfect opener for jessica pratt

http://ryleywalkerbootlegs.blogspot.com/
more live stuff from the man himself ...
new album coming sometime later this summer i think?

saw him two weeks ago and he had the best feedback coming out of his guitar

Looking forward to this.

http://cdn.folkradio.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Golden-Sings-That-Have-Been-Sung-min-1170x650.jpg

https://youtu.be/55I8CvHH1U4

has he been touring with the same band this year? heard that the primrose green players are busy with their own thing (health & beauty)

I've been in the 'definitely hugely talented but needs to get some stuff out of his system' camp for a while. Good to hear him try some different things on the new album, but while Bert Jansch's lawyers can stand down, big Jim O'Rourke's lawyers' might be taking notice...

how is it possible to be original in the year 2016 tho

i get the o'rourke/gastr del sol comparisons w/ this one, but walker's vocals are almost the opposite of o'rourke's. his lyrics too.

Digging these new Ryley tracks. Not hearing enough O'Rourke biting to be bothered by it, and anyway I like Ryley's new tracks better than O'Rourke's last album hah hah.

loving this, it's a very autumn record to the last one's summer

Have to admit that this is really growing on me. Hearing the long versions of the songs on an NYCTaper set really gave a sense of space, space which now feels enfolded in the shorter versions,

Listening to "Golden Sings" now and I'm not familiar with any of the artist he's been compared to (aside from Nick Drake). I really like this new album, how it combines the feel of the folk singer-songwriter with some different sounds like the zither. It starts with a bang with "The Halfwit In Me" and grabs me by the collar with "The Roundabout", but the ending "Age Old Tale" has this Fairport Convention-meets-American Music Club vibe that's a total winner.

seeing walker tonight tape a radio show in boulder -- wish it was a full set, but I'll take what i can get ... new one is definitely growing on me overall. fairport-meets-american music club is a good description ...

Yes I'm enjoying this too - been on repeat for the last week or so.

I bought the double disc edition, with the 40 minute live version of Sullen Mind, which I've yet to listen to.

I must pick up his first album.

YOU CAN FIND ME AT THE ROUNDABOUT

so great. a lot of his live stuff is even better. nyctaper has a ton of good stuff but there is more. his band is hot shit

I saw him at Pickathon in Portland in August 2016. He was terrific. Wild-eyed.

I like all three of his records a lot. They're not perfect, but that's OK. I like his spirit.

New album "Deafman Glance" out 5/18.

First single:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLCqziQsbz4

Hmm, dunno. I keep coming back to him but mostly go 'Jansch!' or 'Jim O'Rourke!' and pop off to listen to something else. This is more the latter.

he's quite the rascal on twitter, and talks about all kinds of music outside of that zone it's interesting how reverent his music is

his french fry/coleslaw banter is great on this. i recorded this at an in-store he did in minneapolis

he's really great live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlkpC8J7y38

he complains a lot on twitter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d5_-hffFrk

he complains a lot on twitter

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, February 28, 2018 4:42 PM (nine seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah he does
i've always wondered w/these solo guys who tour a lot....that's gotta be...kind of a fucked up lifestyle, a lot of time alone

yeah. i mean how he spends his time is up to him but for someone who has been graced with the good fortune of pursuing a life in music, he sure doesn't seem to enjoy it much.
he is doing a residency at a venue here in march.

i almost talked shit to him on twitter when he was talking shit about the first leo kottke record but then i was like dude what are you doing and erased it :)

The last time I saw him in Austin it was a really small show. Maybe 20 people. A couple RIGHT IN FRONT were loudly having a conversation the entire time and he got pretty peeved about it, made funny comments, etc. What was especially funny is that I don't think they ever noticed.

i think his complainy tweets are more jokes than true complaints. i mean they're definitely roooted in some tour-life self-hatred, but his twitter seems to be on wisecrack mode 100% of the time

v. excited to see him in April! I like the new song lots

someone who has been graced with the good fortune of pursuing a life in music

"good fortune"

yeah good fortune -- plus talent obviously but he has been quite fortunate/"blessed"/whatever you wanna call it in his musical career

musician posing as a worker

Ol’ south side Irish chicago dude looked at my boots and said “those are work boots why’s you’s wearin dem if you obviously ain’t got a job dere guy” ;(

— Ryley walker (@ryleywalker) February 27, 2018

The luxurious lifestyle of the touring musician

Best gig I saw last year. On stage he was self-deprecating, witty and alert (plenty of nice back-and-forths with the audience). Great band, too.

Looking forward to the album, too. Endorsements like these sure help to build up the hype:

Getting record master back: “I’ve finally done it. This is the best thing I’ve ever done. Finally.”

Sitting on said record for 3 months: “I’m a fraud and death can’t come quick enough”

— Ryley walker (@ryleywalker) February 26, 2018

super stoked for this new record. i think if you follow him on twitter and instagram both it seems pretty clear that his tongue is typically in cheek when he's bitching about tour food or making videos of himself warming up soup.

i think if you follow him on twitter and instagram both it seems pretty clear that his tongue is typically in cheek when he's bitching about tour food or making videos of himself warming up soup.

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0)

well i don't follow anybody on twitter or instagram but, based on my extensive personal history of "ironic" self-loathing, that looks a lot like "ironic" self-loathing to me

you should follow ppl on twitter, rush, its pretty fun

I just heard about this guy and I really like his new album. Good stuff people.

Don't think I've formally written about him anywhere yet but yeah, good stuff. He's headlining a hell of a triple bill here in a few weeks -- support is the Trad Gras och Stenar/Endless Boogie tour.

he just opened for ESPers and Vetiver in philly friday. helluva show!

his set at Marfa Myths was so great! he's very self-deprecating but seeing him live it's clear he is delighted to be playing music.

This record is right up the alley of a lot of ILMers. To make a facile comparison, it sounds like Sea Change Beck crossed with Veedon Fleece Van Morrison.

feel like the new album he's let in enough Chicago jazz/post rock into the mix to overcome the Jansch lite comparisons, definitely his best album by far and more in line with the last time I saw him with full band

still think i like the Jansch-lite jams of Primrose Green the best, but i definitely dig that he's trying out different stuff — would probably get boring if every record was like PG.

Ya some songs have a sea and cake/sam prekop vibe (halfwit in me)

The live versions even more so

I haven't listened to the new one, but I like him a lot and he is great live. The last time I saw him prompted a little concern -- he sounded great but he looked pretty raw, red-rimmed eyes and a general sense of hard living. Some friends of mine ran into him on the street a few hours later and told him how much they liked the set; he said thanks and asked if they wanted to come "do some drugs" with him. (They declined.) So, hope he's keeping himself ok!

don't worry about ryley, he'll be here long after we're all gone

He's probably drugging and drinking a bit too much but it's also part of his pose / persona if you follow him on twitter / instagram. He is basically great and hilarious and I love his music, one of my current faves. The newest one hasn't totally clicked for me but I assume it will in time, the last one was the best (Golden Sings.... Highly recommend seeking out the "Deep Cuts" edition of that one, the second disc is an extended live version of "Sullen Mind" that's ~40 minutes long.

Sullen mind is a simple but great track

also i think he does lots of drugs, the first thing he asked my friend who took him out was where to find coke so

Yeah, the most recent album didn't impress me the way "Golden Sings" did.

The "musician drinking and drugging" persona is so boring. More's the pity.

he is a talented person; i wish he didn't get so much of a reward from the persona so he would see more of a benefit to cleaning up his act

About that persona

https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/qvmydp/ryley-walker-listens-to-leonard-cohen-for-the-first-time-fuck-this-guy

talk about a pointless article

If you walked to his apartment, I feel like his bookshelf will fall over and kill me.

OK, lol

sorry, but this guy rules

i mean i don't feel like i'm smart enough to listen to Lynyrd Cohen either, so i relate

there's a whole napoleon complex specific to dudes who make the most milquetoast, inoffensive music but express the most virulent assholish opinions about other people's music. it can be funny but do you really want to put yourself in the same persona type as father john misty

As I said elsewhere, I've never heard a Ryley Walker song and I likely never will, but anybody that hates Leonard Cohen and Lou Reed this much is OK by me.

LL did we see this guy play at the same festival with royal trux and lightning bolt? i get him confused with several other acoustic guitar dudes

also how come no one use has used the term "challops" in here yet

Did anyone notice that they used pretty much the exact same photo concept for another Ryley Walker article? Am I missing something?

https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/3kjpn8/ryley-walker-opposite-middle-deafman-glance-stream-interview?site=noisey&utm_campaign=qvmydp&utm_source=stylizedembed_noisey.vice.com

I assumed that was by design.

LL did we see this guy play at the same festival with royal trux and lightning bolt?

yes we did!

oh ok. apparently i don't like this guy's persona OR his music then.

some of his tweets are funny though.

Seems weird to meticulously harmonize the visual accompaniment for their ongoing series of Ryley Walker articles unless they do it the same for everyone. I haven't checked!

xposts

I've been a big fan, but the new album didn't click with me either. I struggle with his si-hi-hing style a little.

He's great live - do go if he comes to town.

crying laughing emoji

F**k Ryley Walker, whoever he is. pic.twitter.com/ZlyvS8nfZk

— Adrien Begrand (@AdrienBegrand) August 29, 2018

Kill yr idols I guess. There's plenty of other folks that do his schtick w/o being colossal douchebags.

there's a whole napoleon complex specific to dudes who make the most milquetoast, inoffensive music but express the most virulent assholish opinions about other people's music. it can be funny but do you really want to put yourself in the same persona type as father john misty

OTMFM

you lie with vice, you get challops

Hilarious thing is ryley either gives zero fucks or is also laughing his ass off

His Twitter persona is pretty funny I guess, but there's also something really irritating about his showy contrarianism.

^ true. That Noisey piece elicits about equal parts lol and ah-come-on-fuck-you
Duke's right about him being great live, had a blast last year

I saw him live once but he had the great misfortune of following Circuit Des Yeux. My point being, everyone should see Circuit Des Yeux asap.

that was a great bill

like I love Leonard Cohen and that interview is one of the funniest musician interviews I have ever read.

Gotten 20 or so death threats from the Leonard Cohen piece. Never gotten death threats from switchfoot or genesis fans. Genesis forever

— Ryley walker (@ryleywalker) August 30, 2018

TBF, he needs to piss off some Yes fans to get some legit death threats.

genesis forever

I heard Phil Collins will send you death threats via fax machine

walker of the skies, walker of all

The weird thing is for not knowing much about cohen, ryley actually got cohen’s persona down pat

He was that montreal to nyc transplant fagboy and it is totally a thing

vice would know

sorry that was a flip comment, but I find this characterization very upsetting

Whenever someone plays classical music I say, “hell yeah the verve bittersweet symphony”

— Ryley walker (@ryleywalker) September 21, 2018

lmao

So yeah, saw him Friday night with Trad Gras och Stenar and Endless Boogie (both very great) as openers. He's got an extremely good band together backing and each individual song performance was pretty sharp, understated but not inaudible singing, good sense of ensemble performances all around -- my friend Paul and I traded thoughts back and forth, he mentioned Prefab Sprout, John Martyn and Jeff Buckley, I was thinking of late 90s indie-goes-prog in turn. His loud and exuberant-but-verging-on-obnoxious between song stuff, well, maybe I need to be his age or something. (That said, as I told Paul, we're not talking 90s/00s Anton from Brian Jonestown Massacre here.)

Also he just announced a full cover album of Dave Matthews Band's The Lillywhite Sessions. Whatever works for ya.

i've heard it, it's very good

Between that and Lady Bird I'm...not looking forward to DMB becoming a new generation's Steely Dan or something.

i don't think it's gonna be a thing

I feel better now!

Yr gettin old ted!

Yeah fuck that Ted guy.

i mean, I Was A Teenage DMB Fan. i've since realized most of the music is not very good at all! but something about the lillywhite sessions still fascinates, in that 1) matthews shelved it bc it was too dour and ended up recording a shitty happy album in like nine days with glen ballard and he put that out instead 2) its dourness means there's a lot less dumbassery than on your typical dmb album, and the melodies are for the most part really gorgeous. walker's rearrangements are both really radical and yet true to the original songs. it's very very very jazzy

i've never heard the DMB album he is covering (i hate the DMB, they are so bad and hated), but Ryley's version is pretty OK. a weird thing to do for sure, but oh well!

I agree DMB has a lot of gorgeous melodies. Most people don't like the vocals and the jam band delivery.

lol

If I get on here and say “I just boofed a Habenero Garlic Boneless Wing™️ covered in cocaine...uuuuhhh David Bowie is bullshit but Jars of Clay totally slaps dawg, don’t sleep” then people will respect me

— the modern folk (@themodernfolk) October 25, 2018

also, make good music

Listening to "In Castle Dome" and all I hear is "In Castleton"

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/bb/9b/df3ae03ae7a0e5de6cddd110.L.jpg

good for him, excited to see what he does next

https://uproxx.com/indie/ryley-walker-interview-addiction-mental-health/

saw him w/ ryan jewell + special guest neil hagerty last week, 40-minute psych jam.
his new instrumental LP w/ charles rumback is fantastic.

oh yeah you can check out the walker / jewell / hagerty jam here: https://www.osirispod.com/podcasts/beyond-the-pond/beyond-the-pond-episode-083-indie-jam-basement-sesh-w-ryley-walker-ryan-jewell/

Glad to see he's in a much better place, I had no idea how dark of a place he had gotten too. Just goes to show you how insidious depressing and addition can be. You'd think opening for a guy like Richard Thompson would be a highlight for a guy like Ryley, but he was suffering so much.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of love for them on ilx, but his set with Garcia Peoples backing him up on the Rocks Off Concert Cruise was great.

i really enjoyed the rumback lp xxp

great interview, sounds like he was really suffering glad he found his way out

Hadnt heard of this guy at all but checked out the rumback album on spotify today and i'm really digging, cool stuff

he's definitely had a cool trajectory this decade! very glad he is doing better mentally now ...

Of all his great projects lately, I'm surprised by how much I keep gong back to that Dave Matthews thing.

he was good at first but soooooooooo Bert Jansch feels like he has more of a unique voice now, feels like he's in the Chicago rock tradition now

I'm in that weird interzone of being a bit of Walker sceptic while continually checking everything he does. It's like I'm waiting for him to *become* or whatever; he's clearly got all the talent. The Rumback album is sounding excellent.

this tape sounds great http://www.nyctaper.com/2019/03/ryley-walker-steve-gunn-march-5-2019-union-pool/

This record he did with JR Bohannon and Ben Greenberg is pretty cool:

https://huskypantsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/for-michael-ripps

new album 'Course in Fable' coming out in April

stream a track here: https://ryleywalker.bandcamp.com/album/course-in-fable

Prolific eh? I quite like his collab with Kikagaku Moyo too. Mmm krauty.

it's great! just got the vinyl in the mail. it's on his label husky pants. beautiful record, lathe cut by Bob Weston of Shellac, sounds great

new one was produced by John McEntire of Tortoise, love Ryley shedding his folk affectations and embracing being a Chicago Rock Dude

I'm not familiar with his solo stuff but I checked out his Kikagaku Moyo collab on a whim and it's just the kind of East-West psych jamming that I can listen to endlessly.

New one is great — maybe his best? Very gastr del sol but with Ryley’s oddball personality all over it. Some really lush moments mixed in with pure weirdness. Band sounds amazing.

Ooo do you have a promo? I'm looking forward to him stepping up the prog on this one given how much he's been raving about Genesis for the past couple years

I'm not familiar with his solo stuff but I checked out his Kikagaku Moyo collab on a whim and it's just the kind of East-West psych jamming that I can listen to endlessly.

― pomenitul, Sunday, February 14, 2021 10:18 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

he's really changed, i think there are things to recommend from every era, but yeah started out as extremely earnest Bert Jansch/Pentangle worship then gradually starts getting weirder and incorporating more mid 90s post rock type vibes and jazzy feels (john martyn influence maybe?)

did a cover of some unreleased (I think?) Dave Matthews Band record that actually turned out way better than it had any right to

Cool, I'm definitely going to start exploring his output. Seems like there's a lot going on here and most of it is to my liking (on paper, at least).

he did a collaboration with Bill MacKay that I never heard, maybe tyler did

I think Deafman Glance is where he started really leaning into the Chicago post-rock vibe and is one of the best rock records of the last few years. It's so damn TASTY

i love all his stuff. rang dizzy is great, excited for new album

i love the album but if you put ‘primrose green’ on for someone who hadn’t heard him before there’s no way they would guess it was from the current century lol

the bill mackay collab is really great

I feel like it's worth noting that RW is a huge Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 fan, speaking of 90s post-rock influences

he did a collaboration with Bill MacKay that I never heard, maybe tyler did

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, February 14, 2021 12:49 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

He did twice actually! Of the two I'm more familiar with Land of Plenty and I return to it ALL the time.

love the dave matthews record. love the thinking fellers t shirt. love the leonard cohen trolling.

i only liked about half of "golden songs" but that aside dude has an impressive hit rate

Ooo do you have a promo? I'm looking forward to him stepping up the prog on this one given how much he's been raving about Genesis for the past couple years

yeah there's definitely a genesis-y flavor at times ...

He's been a really interesting guy to follow for the last 6-7 years. The first time I saw him it felt like more a sum-of-influences, though super talented and energetic. But by 2nd time he was much more sounding like his own thing, and the 3rd time a couple years ago he was, as they say, really on his shit. I loved that album, Deafman Glance. Looking forward to the new one. And need to check out the Kikagaku Moyo too.

Hmmmm. I really struggled with Deafman Glance... maybe I should revisit.

I have one Mackey collab that I enjoy. He was great live. I'll definitely check out this new one.

Looking forward to this one, he’s been in a roll for the past few years. I do like that he’s turning into a full-on Chicago post-rock dude only after moving to NYC.

Little Common Twist with Charles Rumback is fantastic

yeah thats the one i probably listen to the most

I truly love Ryley's music and playing but I admit sometimes his singing style can really get on my nerves. Sorry, I should have said I truly lo-hove Ryley's musi-hic and playing but I admit someti-himes his singing style ca-han really get on my ner-herves.

OK Land of Plenty just happened to come up in shuffle just now and it's still so great and comforting.

His sty-hyle of singing grates with mee-hee as well sometimes.

Yeah I mean it just gets a little distracting for me if I think about it while I'm listening. Wish he did that specific thing a little less often. Only other thing that bothers and distracts me is my jealousy of people like him who can make their guitar do whatever they want effortlessly.

i like his singing but if u don’t i guess the good thing is he has like 4 releases per year of instrumental jammin

his singing is basically on par with bert jansch's singing for me, not a benefit or a detriment generally

he definitely has some ticks, but initially I liked his singing because it didn't fall into the standard indie rock modes.

For me it's literally just that one thing. Once I notice it it's all I hear!

I love Jansch's vocals!

But I also get that they aren't traditionally what you'd consider great esp when contrasted with his playing

I don't dislike either Jansch or Walker's vox, they do the job just fine for me, I just wouldn't ever say wow these guys are great singers

Walter's singing can be annoying because of the si-hi-hinging style. I don't understand why we need to compare him to Jansch.

If anything Jansch can be oddly annoying because he breathes loudly through his nose while playing

Walter's singing can be annoying because of the si-hi-hinging style. I don't understand why we need to compare him to Jansch.

― Duke, Friday, 19 February 2021 00:25

I mean *Walker's* of course. Autocorrect

singing on ‘rang dizzy’ is lovely imho

New one is great — maybe his best? Very gastr del sol

― tylerw, Sunday, 14 February 2021 17:26 (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Apparently he's been playing with David Grubbs for a while now and they have a duo recording coming out soon

Little Common Twist with Charles Rumback is fantastic

The Kikagaku Moyo collab reminds me of La Novia, minus throatsinging. At least until it turns into Gottsching territory.

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgiAimKoHMM

The Walker & Grubbs duo recording (a 24 minute live thing from 2019) is out now on Cafe OTO’s digital label:
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/david-grubbs-ryley-walker-fight-or-flight-simulato/

the soul patch in the reaction video really brings it home

I don't mind Ryley leaning into comedy now that he's sober. Also thought it was funny that I pre-ordered his new one on CD Thursday and got a shipping notification within an hour.

same thing with the Kikagaku Moyo record I bought - he's on top of things!

I mean, I'm assuming in this case the shipping notification is just the label being printed/created, just never seen it move that quickly. And it's already out for delivery today!

He's always been great at playing characters (has great instincts). Wonder if he's ever done improve or considered it.

half the times i've seen him there have practically been ten minutes of standup material during the set

lol i love that he keeps trying to get his mind around 4/4

just found out he plays psych guitar on the Spiral Galaxy record with Plastic Crimewave folks etc.

Oh wow, I didn't know that either! I've been meaning to check that one out, I'll bump that higher on my list. Thanks.

Yeah, this new is fantastic.

"new one", that should have been. Really great and probably my favorite thing he's done yet.

It's wonderful in every way except for the songs themselves, which haven't reeled me in at all, save for the closer, 'Shiva with Dustpan', which finally rises to the level of 'memorable'. It's probably just me, though.

Great album, very Jim O’Rouke

where are yall hearing this? my bandcamp library still says "pre-order"

the kikagaku moyo collab is a burner and it's like the heaviest vinyl record i own, 1800g lp

xxpost i haven't heard the new one, but your experience lines up w/ mine, generally speaking ... for years now. i love everything about Ryley but i've just never been able to really latch on to his vocal melodies.

just from the singles this sounds pretty damn good

his vocal melodies

Yeah, that's the main sticking point for me as well. I assume this is why I loved the (instrumental) Kikagaku Moyo collab so much.

where are yall hearing this? my bandcamp library still says "pre-order"

Yeah I still haven't gotten the digital version, but my CD copy showed up like two days after I placed the pre-order. Was definitely not expecting that to be the case.

This week I’m two years sober off dope, coke, and booze. Still don’t have the key to happiness or all the answers. Just know it’s 100% possible to live without picking up. Nothing comes before sobriety. Couldn’t have done it alone. Asked sober people what they did and listened.

— Ryley walker (@ryleywalker) March 21, 2021

I love Ryley but I get a headache from this record! Really bums me out :(

first one i've heard and really enjoyed it. the Jim O'Rourke vibes are very strong, but so few people do anything in that style and where Jim doesn't do song records that often, i'm totally fine with it.

Dude's on a roll. His new record with David Grubbs is exceptional! Started out kinda like I would have expected, but gets really weird and out fairly quickly.

I'm really enjoying this new(ish) one. It's grown on me. His vocal has for the most part lost the si-hi-hi-nging style of the last record. Maybe I should give that one another go.

Clad With Bunk ends with a guitar riff like Drag Racer by the Doug Wood Band. Known to older UK listners ad the theme to the snooker.

Any ilxors who have ordered the new Post Wook from his bandcamp received theirs yet? According to the bandcamp email I should have had it a few weeks ago, but nothing yet. It still says "ships out within 5 days" and no notices about any delays, so it doesn't seem to indicate any delays.

I haven't ordered it yet but my previous experience was ordering the Ryley/Kikagaku Moyo album and it shipped out almost immediately so it might be worth emailing just to make sure it didn't fall through the cracks

yeah, i'd just email — ryley is pretty responsive, I've found. cool record! he might even have done it a bit of a disservice with the jokey title, haha.

Yeah, I'll do that. I dunno, I kind of love when he gets all goofy. Kicking myself for missing that Steve Gunn drone tape.

it's kind of cool to read the thread title: Ryley Walker (Jansch-style vocals, finger-picking folk guitar with double bass and violins grooves)

and realize how much he's changed and evolved, that doesn't even come close to describing him now

i guess if you were going to find a good comparison, it'd be john martyn — which means Ryley is about to make his One World?

I wouldn't hate that.

had the pleasure of seeing Ryley live with his band, absolute beast of a bass player Andrew Scott Young and two(!) drummers

he seems so effortless in his playing

ryley walker is hella good. i had no idea...

Post Wook is really great. Have been dipping into his back catalog stuff I haven't heard and it's so diverse. He has a really creative and ambitious musical mind, that takes him in pretty different directions from a lot of his brethren in the post-Faheyverse. Going back to his older stylez search also SpiderBeetleBee w Bill MacKay

Dude seems really happy since getting sober, seems to enjoy working at that burger joint.

He's great fun live - you can tell he's enjoying himself

playing bass last night with the Moles. been a while, good to see him. and yes, he was having a good time up there.

Moles warming up for a GBV opening spot they have coming up, Ryley also has a show with Tara Jane O'Neil in April, as the TJO Duo.