Ryley Walker + Andrew Tuttle at The Fleece

Ryley Walker is an accomplished fingerstyle guitarist, singer, and
songwriter from Chicago. After a few years cutting his teeth on the
city's indie and experimental music scenes, he began giving solo live
performances with his acoustic guitar. The first recorded aspect of his
complex musical persona arrived with the cassette-only EP The Evidence
of Things Unseen, issued in limited edition from Plustapes in 2011. Its
artwork was deliberately reminiscent of John Fahey's Death Chants
Breakdowns & Military Favorites, and inspired by the American
Primitive lexicon of Takoma Records. Later that year he released --
again via cassette on Plustapes -- Of Deathly Premonitions, a four-song
collaboration with fellow fingerstyle guitarist Daniel Bachman. Walker's
first widely circulated recording was a vinyl-only three-song 12"
entitled West Wind from Tompkins Square Records in 2013. His debut
album, All Kinds of You, was issued by the label in April of 2014.

After
intensive touring and playing on others' records, he signed to Dead
Oceans in the fall. Recording in Chicago with a cast of improvisational
and jazz session aces (including cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and
vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz), Walker completed Primrose Green, issued
in 2015. It was the first of his recordings to feature his own vocals.
Musically, it blurs the lines between folk, rock, jazz, and new music.
After nearly ten months of touring Primrose Green, Walker returned to
Chicago and set about writing and recording his third album. Inspired in
part by the Windy City and local musical heroes Tortoise and Gastr del
Sol, the eight-track album, Golden Sings That Have Been Sung, was
released in August 2016. The following year he and frequent touring
partner Bill MacKay issued SpiderBeetleBee, a collection of guitar duets
described as "slide blues, baroque dance, percolating Latin and
deep-focus space" tunes on Drag City.

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