I love Rick Nielsen!ĪC What else is happening in Chicago right now? When I used to tour, I would always leave there with the feeling that I was making a tremendous mistake in not living there. I think the weirdest one might be … You know who I really, really dig? What’s the dude? Rick Nielsen. RW Oh, man, good God, there are so many, I’m obsessed with so much different stuff. You’ll just be eating a burger, and there’s Robin Zander or Rick Nielsen, and you’ll be like, “Wow, that’s cool.”ĪC You play a fairly specific kind of guitar, and I wonder if there are any guitar players that the average Ryley Walker fan would be surprised to hear you’re psyched about. But it’s pretty much all Rockford culture has to it. There’s a big billboard of cartoon caricatures of them. Cheap Trick is like propaganda there to make people think it’s a cool town. RW Hell yeah, it’s Cheap Trick’s hometown. RW Yes, that’s where I was born and raised, about sixty miles northwest of here. You have to take a bus or bike a few miles to get any action, but I like it.ĪC It sounds like a little slice of country life in the city.ĪC I noticed when I was trying to get in touch with you yesterday that my phone showed showed Rockford, Illinois. We’re in this kind of weird spot in Little Village, which is a Mexican neighborhood, and we’re just these creeps on the block hanging out on the porch smoking cigarettes all day. Ryley Walker I’m in Chicago, in the South Side. On a Tuesday when a blizzard was called for but never came, I called Walker from New York-he was at home in Chicago-and discussed Cheap Trick, his UK influences, open tunings, and tips for convincing established musicians to join your band.Īndrew Cedermark So, where is home for you? Beyond its broad appeal, what I find most striking about the record is how it achieves a sense of controlled chaos that few today do listening to Walker lead this band on Primrose Green is like watching moths caught in a lampshade. His style has attracted two classes of admirers: Guitar Player Magazine subscribers who love to hear him shred, and admirers of ’60s and ’70s UK folk, who cherish the renovations Walker is making to the music they love. Toggling between Burt Jansch-inspired Anglo-folk and expansive, jazzy freak-outs, Primrose Green features performances from some of Chicago’s top players, whose improvisational jams are marbled through with Walker’s almost supernatural fingerpicking. This month, his second album, titled Primrose Green-for a cocktail of whiskey and morning glory seeds-is out on Dead Oceans, and he will hit the road with Kevin Morby to support it.
RYLEY WALKER ALL KINDS OF YOU ALBUM SERIES
Following a series of tours, limited-run releases, and collaborations with neo-American primitivists such as Daniel Bachman, Walker released his celebrated debut LP All Kinds of You last August on Tompkins Square Records. Ryley Walker is a left-handed guitar player from Rockford, Illinois, who plays righty and can only hear out of one ear.
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