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
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
Be Sharp
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)

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