1/8/2024 0 Comments Ryley walker dave matthews“The Lillywhite Sessions,” released last November via Dead Oceans. This freewheeling approach to life goes a long way in explaining why a musician who’d previously made his name with a slate of progressive Americana albums - most notably 2016’s “Golden Sings That Have Been Sung” – that showcased a keen flair for virtuosic jazz-influenced fingerpicking had zero reservations to follow up arguably his most critically acclaimed work to date in “Deafman” with a covers album of an unreleased Dave Matthews Band LP. I’m not one to subscribe to anybody’s expectations of who or what I’m supposed to be.” I’ve always been more into pouring a carton of milk on myself at the lunch table. “When you make folky, wispy music people expect you to be this introverted, quiet person who just sits in a tree and reads poems all day,” said Walker, who plays Hungry Brain on Friday. “It’s just weird that I have this tool now to project all this stuff.”Īs for the dissonance between his musical and online presence, Walker said fans feeling a slight disconnect does not surprise him. “It definitely is a projection of my own insecurities, though,” he admitted of his wacky social media persona. Now I have a platform to just be an idiot.’” Walker recalled. Roughly six year ago, when a friend implored him to start using Twitter, “I thought, ‘this is great. “I’m very ashamed and grateful for Twitter,” Walker said with a laugh of the love-hate relationship he has with the social media platform. But take a cursory glance at his Twitter account and you’ll wonder how this absurdist wise-cracker who regularly unspools hysterical, occasionally filthy dispatches from his decade-plus as an indie-rock musician, can possibly be the same man who writes so earnestly on wax. On his best and most fully realized album to date, 2018’s “Deafman Glance,” the Rockford-raised singer-songwriter is sincere, forthright and emotionally resonant. You’d be forgiven for being a bit confused as to what constitutes Ryley Walker’s true personality.
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