![]() I guess the imagery of nature on the record kind of - well, I mean I’ve lived in cities my entire life so it kind of wasn’t a huge conscious decision to do that. Was that a conscious thing for you? Did you mean for this record to have a “back to nature” feel to it? The Primrose Green video was shot on a farm. Pastoral seems to be a buzzword right now that a lot of reviewers have used to describe your music, and I definitely hear some lush lyrics, and feel this sort of rustic connection to nature on the record. I have no problem saying that there’s a psychedelic ambiance to the tunes. There’s kind of a trippy quality to it, definitely. There’s definitely a psychedelic feel to some of your songs. I’m not good at being concrete, in every aspect of my songs, so it took some time. We try to change it up a lot so we just kind of had snippets of time to document it in studio. Most of the music came through - well, we played live a bunch last year, so we kind of got the ins and outs of the songs. What was the songwriting process like on Primrose Green? How did the album take shape? I’m trying to make something of my own, I guess. Lots of good challenges though, I mean, I’m not like a straight ahead American primitive kind of guitarist like Jeff Fahey or something. I mean, that just comes from playing everyday and having a cool crew to play with just makes everything a lot easier to do. I’m just trying to get better all the time on guitar. Are there any challenges that come with that, as far as the distinct, psych-folk and jazz style that you have now? You play “fingerstyle,” which I understand lends itself to folk and country music. It’s all about that kind of energy that flows through everything we do, definitely. I kind of have a punk rock training in jazz, you know, through a lot of noise stuff and jamming in that sort of way. I don’t really have any formal training in jazz or anything. Recently, on NPR’s World Cafe you said you were into free form jazz, but not in a really academic way. It’s a little more far out than something like Dylan I suppose. That comes from the dudes in the band, mostly. Yeah, I mean it’s folk music to its roots, but there’s a lot of kind of swing on there. Listening to Primrose Green, I get more of a jazz feeling sometimes, rather than a straight folk. Little Village caught up with Walker to talk about his music and his new album, Primose Green, as he drove with his bandmates to a show in Columbus, Ohio. Walker’s music has drawn comparisons to folk greats like Nick Drake and John Fahey, but he says he hopes to create a genre and sound he can call his own. ![]() Ryley Walker opens for Real Estate April 2 as part of the Mission Creek Festival - Photo by Dusdin Condren Real Estate w/ Ryley WalkerĮnglert Theater - Thursday, April 2 at 8 p.m.Ĭhicago-based psych-folk guitarist and songwriter Ryley Walker opens Real Estate at the Englert Theatre on Thursday, April 2 as part of Mission Creek.
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