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(To expedite its fall into utter irrelevance, Myspace has disallowed PayPal buttons. But don't worry, when you click a "Buy CD" button below you'll be taken to my website, joeyryan.net, where you can buy the CD's using a credit card securely via PayPal)
"...with its roots above and its branches below" [2009 UK import]
1.We Shall Arrive 2. As It Must Be 3. Like a Cloak 4. Falling 5. No One Else Like You
6. California 7. Honest Man 8. Good Love 9. Let's Move to the Country 10. Island Rain
the California ep [2007]
Acoustic Tracks:
1. California 2. Like A Cloak 3. Giant Clock 4. Ride Of Our Lives
Good Enough [2005]
1. Loving You 2. Center of The World 3. Better Off 4. Long Time Coming 5. Never Happy 6. Holding Your Heart 7. Live Forever 8. Better Of You 9. Good Enough 10. Just A Love Song 11. Blue Eyes 12. Now That You're Gone
Influences
Ray Lamontagne. Neil Young. Conor Oberst. Nick Drake. Ben Harper. Gillian Welch. Alexi Murdoch. CSNY. Bob Dylan. The Beatles. Sam Beam. Beck. Elliot Smith. Chris Pierce. Big Star. Jeff Buckley. Coldplay. Lou Reed. The Shins. John Elliot. James Taylor. Bradley Nowell. Van Morrison. Daniel Lanois. Donovan. Jim Morrison. Damien Rice. The Arcade Fire. O Brother, Where Art Thou?. Rolling Stones. Phish. Amber Rubarth. Paul Simon. David Gray.
Sounds Like
Management:
John Zagata
JJZagata@gmail.com
Licensing Inquiries:
Michael Frick - Mophonics
Michael@mophonics.com
U.S. Booking:
Brian Jonas - Blackbird Artists Agency
brian@blackbirdartistsagency.com
It's a funny feeling sometimes to be a solo act - the perennial singer/songwriter.
When people get interested in my music they also get interested in my life. For a solo artist, everything is fair game for fans and also for industry types... they want to know where you grew up, what your parents do and what they made you do, what schools you went to and what books you read. Obviously all of those things influence the music, but when your own name is the name of your act, these questions are asked before people even listen to a song. I'm guilty of it as well, and I'm not complaining. Not really. But don't we ask fewer personal questions about our favorite bands than about our favorite singer/songwriters? At least I do. I know a lot less about the lives of the guys in The Shins than I do about Ray Lamontagne. I would even say I know less and ask less about the life of singer/songwriter Conor Oberst, maybe only because he goes by the Bright Eyes moniker, than about, say, Brett Dennen.
I don't mind the intrusions of people's curiosity all that much, but it does make me a little uneasy that part of the art I'm trying to create (and part of the product that is inevitably marketed) is just me, as a person - it feels like I myself am up for sale when I put a song on iTunes.
One day I think I'm gonna have a band name, just for myself, maybe it'll be The Glory.
Love, Joey
Quote's I'm proud of:
"One to watch"
- Jo Whiley, BBC Radio 1
"effortlessly charming music with a warm streak of melody, honesty and humility"
- Heather Browne, I am Fuel, You Are Friends
"Armed solely with his acoustic guitar the Californian singer – who appeared completely relaxed on stage – strolled his way through his set with consummate ease. His gravelly and powerful vocal ranged from boombox to mouse-like whisper"
- Zak Edwards, Birmingham Live, UK
Playing Guitar and Singing "California" for 'the California ep'
Thanks for the comment Joey, it was a nice suprise. Hope to see you again. Sorry, wrote you an e-mail too - it wouldn't let me comment the first time I tried. Good luck, I'm a musician as well, and I think you're going to be very successful.
Joey! Man, what a great chat we had a few weeks back. You've got a serious amount of Soul. Thanks for chillin. Hope the road is treating you well and Stay Up, Brother!!
When are we going to play again together so we can make super-witty-inside jokes that the audience doesn't get but wants to and we feel incredibly cool? :) --sarah
hey idk if you remember me but we met at some little outside convention and i was there with ochsa anyways, just droppin by to say hello annd i hope all is going well for you :] -ariel<3
Hi Joey! I just listened to your new song "Father's Day"...it's absolutely beautiful...hit me hard but that's how music is right? Thanks again for the music!
Are you playin' at Hotel Cafe or Room5 this summer? I hope so...enjoy the last leg of your tour!!
Hey Joey... Just had to stop by and comment on "Fathers Day". As a father of a 22 and 19 year old, and with a distant relationship with my own father, this song really hits hard. It is a great tune. I have now added it to my page. Thank you for your music.
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