Each week, songs took on new shapes, while others were written and added to the always-evolving set list. The overall spirit of the residency was that of a creative workshop producing music that ran in directions as wide as the duo’s interests. In January 2015, Bill and Ryley took up a month-long, Friday night residency at The Whistler. Over the course of the year, an impressive repertoire of new songs and ideas coalesced. The duo quickly developed their own musical vocabulary and the resulting sounds drew on traditional folk music from Appalachia to Northern India, as well as jazz and blues. They soon began meeting at Bill’s southwest Chicago home to write and improvise together on their lived-in dreadnought 6-string guitars, with Ryley’s 12-string and Bill’s requinto making frequent appearances as the year wore on. Retrieved November 8, 2019.↳ Chicago-based guitarists Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker met in 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. ^ "Charles Rumback & Ryley Walker – Cannots"."Primrose Green – Ryley Walker | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". | Reliably Informed | Music and Creative Arts News for Newcastle and the North East". "Ryley Walker Talks Moving to Vermont and His New Album". ^ a b Farnsworth, Chris (June 30, 2021).^ "Ryley Walker Performs a Great Leap Forward".^ a b "Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker "Land of Plenty" ".^ "Review: Ryley Walker, 'Primrose Green' ".^ "Ryley Walker: Primrose Green | Album Reviews"."Ryley Walker: 'Going two days sober was impossible since I was a kid' ". ^ a b c Kinney, Fergal (April 5, 2021)."Ryley Walker looks, sounds beyond his years". So Certain EP (Husky Pants Records, 2022).Of Deathly Premonitions (with Daniel Bachman) (Plustapes, 2011).The Evidence of Things Unseen (Plustapes, 2011).Course in Fable (Husky Pants Records, 2021).Deep Fried Grandeur (Husky Pants Records, 2021) with Kikagaku Moyo.Little Common Twist (Thrill Jockey, 2019), with Charles Rumback.The Lillywhite Sessions (covers from a 2001 Dave Matthews Band album) (2018).Spiderbeetlebee (Drag City, 2017), with Bill MacKay.Cannots (Dead Oceans, 2016), with Charles Rumback.Golden Sings That Have Been Sung (Dead Oceans, 2016).Land of Plenty (Whistler Records, 2015), with Bill MacKay.All Kinds of You (Tompkins Square Records, 2014).Īs of 2022, Walker had moved back to New York. Little Common Twist was released by Thrill Jockey in November 2019.Īs of 2021, recently Walker had gotten sober and had moved from New York City to Vermont. The first, Cannots, was released by Dead Oceans in 2016. Walker has, as of 2021, released two albums with Chicago-based jazz drummer Charles Rumback. In 2021 Walker released Deep Fried Grandeur, a live album with the Tokyo band Kikagaku Moyo, and Course in Fable, his sixth solo album of original music, both on his own Husky Pants Records label.
Walker released The Lillywhite Sessions, an album of covers of the aforementioned Dave Matthews Band album. His fifth is Deafman Glance, released in May 2018. On August 19, 2016, Walker released his fourth solo album, Golden Sings That Have Been Sung, which was yet another change in his evolving sound. MacKay performs in Walker's live band, from 2017 or earlier through 2021 and has also played on at least one of Walker's other records. The duo's second album, Spiderbeetlebee, was released by Drag City in 2017. The album's sound was described as fingerstyle ballads, psychedelic waltzes, and raga-inspired blues. MacKay played 6-string guitar, requinto and glass slide, while Walker played 6 & 12-string guitars.
Their instruments converge in the center. MacKay's guitar was recorded on the left channel and Walker's guitar was recorded on the right channel. The songs on the album were taken from the last two shows of the residency, on January 25 and 30. It was recorded live during a January 2015 residency at The Whistler nightclub in Chicago. Īlso in 2015, Walker released an instrumental album, recorded in collaboration with fellow Chicago musician Bill MacKay, entitled Land of Plenty. Backing musicians Walker employed on Primrose Green include several noted Chicago jazz and experimental musicians such as Fred Lonberg-Holm. In 2014, he released his debut album for the Tompkins Square label, and followed it early in 2015 with Primrose Green released on Dead Oceans. Walker began his career in Chicago's independent music scene after moving there in the early 2010s, releasing several cassette EPs and a vinyl EP. Walker, and critics, have cited the band Genesis and singer-songwriter Nick Drake as early influences.
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