All photos copyright and courtesy of Mark Caicedo.Pixies / Fleet Foxes / Bright Eyes / Kurt Vile / Khruangbin / Perfume Genius / The Magnetic Fields / Fruit Bats / Kevin Morby / Lucy Dacus / Tinariwen / Aldous Harding / Nilüfer Yanya / Hurray for the Riff Raff / Durand Jones & The Indications / Sudan Archives / Anaïs Mitchell / The Weather Station / Black Midi / Greentea Peng / Ryley Walker / Coco / Xenia Rubinos / Porridge Radio / Dehd / Jealous of the Birds / Moor Mother / Cassandra Jenkins / Emma-Jean Thackray / Part Chimp / Ian Noe / Circuit Des Yeux / Yard act / Jake Xerxes Fussell / Los Bitchos / Christian Lee Hutson / Purling Hiss / NewDad / Anchoress / Gabriels / audiobooks / Alabaster dePlume / Geese / Nala Sinephro / Les Filles de Illighadad / Wu-Lu / Priya ragu / Ahmed Fakroun / Yasmin Williams / Chisel / TV Priest / Sophie Jamieson / Grove / Apollo Ghosts / KEYAH/BLU / Ural Thomas and The Pain / Joanna Sternberg / Gwenifer Raymond / Scalping / Steam Down / Lael Neale / Sinead O'Brien / The Lounge Society / Lynks / Katherine Priddy / Rosali / The Bug Club / The Golden Dregs / Cola / Grace Cummings / Margo Cilker / deathcrash / Buffalo Nichols / Cobalt Chapel / Mandy, Indiana / Marlaena Moore / Mike Polizze / Joe & The Shitboys / Keg / Jana Horn / Automotion / Modern Woman / Lee Patterson / mhaol / Bingo Fury / Naima Bock / Kurt Vile & The Violators / Nukuluk / TARAKA / Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan / Sniffany and the Nits / Grove (UK) / INDIA JORDAN (DJ SET) / The Bug Club / Ural Thomas and The Pain / English Teacher / HighSchool / Party Dozen / Lunge / Snapped Ankles / Soccer Mommy / Battles / Beak> / Starcrawler / The Wave Pictures / Bar Italia / Jockstrap / Tiny Leaves / Willie J Healey / Hailu Mergia / Bad With Phones / James Holden & Waclaw Zimpel / Uwade / Robocobra Quartet Here are some photos of Ryley Walker performing at the Lincoln Theatre on April 27, 2018. The scale of his formidable talents makes this astonishing guitarist one to watch.įind more music and tour information at. One might be tempted to dismiss Ryley Walker for his “uncouth” persona. I’m not judging, for I have been known to drop a well-timed “fuck!” every now and then, but the contradictions and dichotomy of Ryley’s on-stage personality with the gloriousness of the music is confusing, frustrating and discombobulating. His tendency to sprinkle F-bombs throughout his between song chats is off-putting for some, hilarious for others. Others have written of the disparity between Ryley’s stage banter and the beautiful complexity of his music. “The Roundabout,” another extended piece featuring superb improvisation (as throughout Ryley’s performance) closed out the set.
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“Telluride Speed” from the forthcoming Deafman Glance, due on May 18, followed with a series of bucolic, softly sung verses only to change directions with a jazzy power chord instrumental section.
Opening with “The Halfwit in Me,” from his 2016 album, “Golden Sings That Have Been Sung,” a song that bounces along with an intricate, sunny melody, eventually evolves into a beautiful closing coda.
Bill Mackay’s accompaniment added a rich tonal foundation against Ryley’s power chords and lead runs. With virtuoso improvisational skills, an exquisite sense of drive and expert finger-picking technique, Ryley launched into a 40-minute set that alternated between soothing pastoral melodies and screeching sonic blasts. As if realizing his stumble, though, Ryley quickly muttered, “Okay, yeah, I’ll just shut up and play now.”Īnd play he did. The Lincoln Theatre has a long and storied history and is one of the District’s most beautiful venues, visually and acoustically. Ryley, unfortunately, stumbled at the outset with an ill-timed observation about the venerable theatre and the untimely death of its beloved namesake. Although the songs largely “felt” like instrumentals due to the extended improvisational sections, Ryley’s occasional vocals owed much to the influence of Nick Drake and John Martyn during his performance opening for Calexico at the Lincoln Theatre on Friday. (Photo by Mark Caicedo)Īccompanied by second guitarist Bill Mackay, Ryley Walker’s music is an expert amalgamation reminiscent of the Grateful Dead’s live “space” passages, Pat Metheny’s delicately picked jazz guitar, and today’s proliferation of post-rock bands. Ryley Walker performs at the Lincoln Theater on April 27, 2018.
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