Dan Ryan, The / Guidance
| Album: | Guidance | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Dan Ryan, The | Added: | Jan 2018 | |
| Label: | Cosmic Dreamer Music | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2018-01-23 | Pull Date: | 2018-03-27 |
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| Week Ending: | Mar 25 | Mar 18 | Mar 11 | Mar 4 | Feb 25 | Feb 18 | Feb 11 | Feb 4 |
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| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 24, 2018: | Music Casserole
Guidance |
4. | Mar 16, 2018: | Traditions
Guidance |
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| 2. | Mar 23, 2018: | Traditions
Guidance |
5. | Mar 09, 2018: | Traditions
Maker |
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| 3. | Mar 17, 2018: | Music Casserole
Maker |
6. | Mar 01, 2018: | w/e
Guidance |
Album Review
Be Sharp
Reviewed 2018-01-11
Reviewed 2018-01-11
INDIE PSYCHEDELIC FOLK
Singer-songwriter Nathan Dixey has named his Austin, Texas-based band after a freeway in his hometown of Chicago. The Austin Chronicle says this album “squeezes the Grateful Dead's psych-folk over earnest Fleet Foxes fusion flavor.” I guess that sounds about right. High, breathy but pleasing vocals; electro-acoustic; some strumming, some fingerstyle. Lyrics (on inside cover) are often tough, critical, grieving.
No FCC issues
1 Mid-slow. Banjo-tone guitar; metronome drums. A harsh look at society. Gloomy. (5:17)
2 * Mid-slow. Strumming; pretty singing & melody. War is starting; is it literal? (5:15)
3 Slow. Sad, grieving lake-side thoughts. Something has gone terribly wrong. Eerie. (4:18)
4 ** Mid-tempo. Uplifting, hopeful protest song. Good lyrics; good ringing sound. (4:45)
5 * Mid-slow. Pretty, gentle folk-rock ballad about letting go of someone/something. (3:52)
6 * Mid-slow. Lovely fingerstyle guitar intro. Lyrics full of dark, Classical images. (6:06)
7 Very slow. Sad, plaintive request to (perhaps) a former lover. Spacey background. (4:53)
8. Slow. Another critical view of where we’re headed (like 1). Spooky pedal steel. (4:08)
9 Very slow. Ironic feel with old-time piano, sad trombone. More symbolic imagery. (5:05)
Singer-songwriter Nathan Dixey has named his Austin, Texas-based band after a freeway in his hometown of Chicago. The Austin Chronicle says this album “squeezes the Grateful Dead's psych-folk over earnest Fleet Foxes fusion flavor.” I guess that sounds about right. High, breathy but pleasing vocals; electro-acoustic; some strumming, some fingerstyle. Lyrics (on inside cover) are often tough, critical, grieving.
No FCC issues
1 Mid-slow. Banjo-tone guitar; metronome drums. A harsh look at society. Gloomy. (5:17)
2 * Mid-slow. Strumming; pretty singing & melody. War is starting; is it literal? (5:15)
3 Slow. Sad, grieving lake-side thoughts. Something has gone terribly wrong. Eerie. (4:18)
4 ** Mid-tempo. Uplifting, hopeful protest song. Good lyrics; good ringing sound. (4:45)
5 * Mid-slow. Pretty, gentle folk-rock ballad about letting go of someone/something. (3:52)
6 * Mid-slow. Lovely fingerstyle guitar intro. Lyrics full of dark, Classical images. (6:06)
7 Very slow. Sad, plaintive request to (perhaps) a former lover. Spacey background. (4:53)
8. Slow. Another critical view of where we’re headed (like 1). Spooky pedal steel. (4:08)
9 Very slow. Ironic feel with old-time piano, sad trombone. More symbolic imagery. (5:05)
Track Listing
| 1. | Ring Them Bells (Carrion Crow) | 5. | Oh Little One You Are Released | |||
| 2. | Lonely Height | 6. | Maker | |||
| 3. | Meditation Lake Mcdonald | 7. | Release Me | |||
| 4. | Guidance | 8. | Reckoning | |||
| 9. | Elysian Fields | |||||