![]() Robert Duvall has this really great character in Tender Mercies. I’m not a stone with no emotions ever, but after 60 days of no sleep and only eating shit in a car seat six hours a day, everything is amplified. It’s not that I even relate to the whole music industry thing I think I was just fried after a long tour. Starred Mark Ruffalo and Kiera Knightley I think? She’s this struggling singer-songwriter that Mark Ruffalo’s character is trying to produce. I don’t remember the name of the movie, but it was something I watched on a plane. The latest book or movie that made you cry? In tackling our 20 Questions, however, Walker reveals to us a profound affinity for Led Zeppelin III, his mastery of making both breakfast and smoke rings (although not simultaneously), and how after all his days in heavy noise bands, it still takes that one perfect Mark Ruffalo movie to bring him to tears.ġ. Lyrics serve to reflect and reinforce a particular composition’s tone as much as they are used as vocal cues to the musicians working alongside Walker. ![]() The Illinois born-and-bred singer-songwriter has been cutting his teeth in Chicago for years, and as PopMatters‘ own Eric Risch pointed out in his stellar review of Primrose, some of that may be due to Walker’s own role in an album bearing his name: “More bandleader than frontman, Walker isn’t burdened by traditional narrative structures rather, the Chicago-by-way-of-Rockford, Illinois guitar picker and his band of Windy City musicians incorporate lyrical fragments into their alchemy of sound to create a series of mood pieces that flit on a wind, catching one’s ear in passing. Primrose Green is a universe unto itself, and it’s for that reason that so many people are talking about its creator, Ryley Walker. It’s a disc less focused on satisfying the writer’s ego or existing purely on the basis of heartfelt confessionals as so many modern “folk” albums are instead, it focuses on establishing its own universe, one where psychedelic textures mix in with delicately finger-picked guitars, creating something sonically unique but also entirely self-contained. Primrose Green is one hell of an insular folk album.
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