![]() ![]() I love his sense of humor and his music a lot. In my early twenties, Dongs of Sevotion and Knock Knoc k, I listened to those records religiously. I was hearing SMOG (Bill Callahan) influence on your new song Rang Dizzy. Doing that sort of thing was the starting point. The big music for me then was American Football, Cap’n Jazz, all the big midwest emo bands. I started playing guitar when I was twelve or thirteen and I wrote crappy songs. When did you start playing and writing songs? Discovering your music recently has been really cool. ![]() I don’t need nightlife or a scene as much as I used to. She’s ready to move on to bigger and better things and I was like, yeah, let’s do it. My girlfriend is from New York City and has lived there her whole life. Getting a house up there and getting things figured out wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. Times are different and I’m getting older I guess. Yeah, I always thought I was just a city rat. I got a house up there with my girlfriend. Oh man, I love Portland and I’m actually moving to Vermont in May. I was in Vermont for some years before that. Ryley Walker: Where are you calling from? Glide was lucky to get on the phone and catch up with Ryley about the upcoming album Course in Fable (out 4/3), his move from NYC to Vermont, and much, much more. So I say this confidently and proudly: Ryley Walker is an inspiration. Now Ryley is running his own small indie-label, doing all his own public relations, and in simple terms: he is killing it. In short, Walker spent the good part of his twenties in a van, grinding away at the indie musician “dream.” Multiple releases with hip labels, tours through Europe, notable press, the whole shebang. Today, the 32-year-old artist – with his unassuming genius and a refreshing approach to the guitar – has an outlook on a life worth sharing. Simple, humble, balanced, even, fair, truth. Most of us are too busy wielding our deepest desires and forging ahead in search of the token that will strengthen our ego into ultra-powered lift-off mode, only to be let down when we realize how shitty it feels to be looking outward for something that was right there the whole time. Contentment is invited too and pairs perfectly with humble expectations of self. So we ask ourselves once again … what is truly most important in life? What does real success feel like? Today we’re looking for the real stuff – not the fancy car and expensive house fluff – I’m talking about the success that truly and sustainably translates into feeling good.įor Ryley Walker, the answer is simple: balance and healthy home life. ![]() A bantering silhouette, perched tall and proud in its hilarious nature, laughing at us as we seek grand success and monumental happiness. There is a constant searching that permeates our world, a question that stumbles through light-hearted conversation and “deep” thought philosophical undertakings. ![]()
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