![]() With his idiosyncratic compositional method and stunning - yet emotionally resonant - playing technique, he is able to dissect, distill, recombine, and, just like his predecessors, reshape the music that inspires him in his own image. All Kinds Of You Lyrics: I cant do another midnight alone / Never thought of you leaving, keeps me home / When you were standing by the station with your big round eyes / Yea, theres all kinds. But Walker's harmonic sensibility is vast. All Kinds of You may not contain new sounds - they weren't new for his influences, either. Closer "Tanglewood Spaces" is a gorgeous round that reflects both Graham and Jansch, but draws from the rural American South in its melody. "On the Rise" is an uptempo modal blues that features Brian Sulpizio's neo-psych electric guitar duetting with Walker's fluid fingerstyle acoustic. 2" is a gorgeous meditation on minor-key patterns, while "Fonda," another instrumental, contrasts ragtime and Appalachian-style guitar with neo-classical piano in a haunted round. Listen free to Ryley Walker All Kinds of You (The West Wind, Blessings and more). "Clear the Sky" recalls the guitar style of early John Martyn, though the the elegant instrumental arrangements and open vocal recall Tim Buckley's Happy Sad era - though Walker ultimately slips both restraints and delivers something more mercurial. ![]() 1" is a riveting guitar breakdown with a throbbing bassline, soaring viola, and post-bop drums. "Great River Road" is a driving country blues that recalls Hardin, but its turnarounds are tight and knotty, and the Gypsy swing in the bridge moves it outside that frame. Walker's baritone may be limited in range, but it is clear and expressive the grain in his voice inhabits his lyric with commitment, but not overstatement. "Blessings" pairs viola and guitar in a lilting display of early Celtic folk, Baroque classical music, and jazz with his blues moan on top. Set opener "The West Wind" juxtaposes jazz drumming, modal blues, classical viola, and raga-esque drones in an intoxicating meld. All Kinds of You Ryley Walker Rock 2014 There hasn’t been an acoustic guitarist as elegantly masterful as Ryley Walker since the heyday of Davey Graham and John Fahey more than a generation ago. But Walker's sound reaches deeper and wider it cannot be reined in by them. Primrose Green begins near where All Kinds of You, his last record, leaves off but. His influences are on his sleeve: the British fingerstyle folk of guitarists Davy Graham and Bert Jansch, American primitive guitar soli à la Takoma Records, the delirious psychedelic folk of Tim Buckley, and the bluesy jazz-folk of Tim Hardin and more. Ryley Walker is the reincarnation of the True American Guitar Player. Produced and mixed by Cave's Cooper Crain, Walker fearlessly navigates musical traditions in bracing, seductive, and adventurous ways with the self-assuredness of an artist far older than his 24 years. ![]() After two limited-edition cassettes, a single, and 2013's fine West Wind EP, fingerstyle guitarist, singer, and songwriter Ryley Walker delivers All Kinds of You, his debut full-length for the discerning Tompkins Square. ![]()
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