| Dan Ryan, The / Guidance |
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| Album: | Guidance | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Dan Ryan, The | Added: | Jan 2018 | |
| Label: | Cosmic Dreamer Music | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2018-01-23 | Pull Date: | 2018-03-27 |
| Week Ending: | Mar 25 | Mar 18 | Mar 11 | Mar 4 | Feb 25 | Feb 18 | Feb 11 | Feb 4 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 24, 2018: | Music Casserole Guidance | 4. | Mar 16, 2018: | Traditions Guidance | |
| 2. | Mar 23, 2018: | Traditions Guidance | 5. | Mar 09, 2018: | Traditions Maker | |
| 3. | Mar 17, 2018: | Music Casserole Maker | 6. | Mar 01, 2018: | w/e Guidance |
| Album Review |
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| Be Sharp Reviewed 2018-01-11 | ||
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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) | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 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 | |||||