Ryan Anderson with Andy Mcallister (drums), Brent Pennington (bass), Adam Avramescu (keys & trumpet), Justin Anderson (bass), Joe Terry (singing, stand up bass & trumpet), Jordan Mayland (piano & drums), Trent Derby (drums), Ashely and Pat Tape Fleming (singing, miscellaneous), Jennifer and Sylvie Anderson (happiness, inspiration, artwork)
Elizabeth Cotten, Hank Williams Sr, Lightin' Hopkins, Son House, Skip James, The Carter Family, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Staple Singers, Mississippi John Hurt, Doc Watson, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, The Band, Willie Nelson, Loudon Wainwright III, John Prine, Bruce Springsteen, Emmit Rhodes, Tom Waits, Velvet Underground, Hans Louis Fenger, Gram Parsons, Vic Chesnutt, John Darnielle, Harry Crews, Barry Hannah, Larry Brown, Walker Percy, Padgett Powell, Peter Taylor, Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff, Robert Stone, Louis Jenkins, Stephen Dobyns, Jorge Luis Borges, Kurt Vonnegut, Ernest Hemingway, and Patrick Fleming.
In the past I have released music as 'Ryan Anderson.' I am tired of dreading the question "What's your band name?" The next album will be released as MINORCAN (mi-nawr-kuhn). The British brought the Minorcans to St. Augustine, FL just before the American Revolutionary War. They worked as indentured servants.
I flew up to Iowa in May 2008, spent 7 days in a basement with some of my favorite people in the world and recorded a few songs on 1/2" tape. The result is a new album called, "Keep at Hand." Available now via Blood on the Vinyl
There is only one way to say it: these songs are about love, which is rough on the edges. Fall hard, let the heart swell but prepare for a fight and remember, if no one's getting dirty then no one's having fun. Walker Percy had it right:
"We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away."
The track listing is:
01) Shoulder to shoulder
02) Dragon's daughter
03) Bobby Frank Cherry
04) Our Time
05) Sudden Spring
06) I wish it would storm tonight
07) Gilded age
08) Barn burning
09) In Vicksburg
10) Long home
11) Main line
BIO:
I was born in Northeast Florida at a hospital called, “Baptist Medical.”
At age 8, I stepped on my first guitar and it broke. I don’t remember the first song I wrote, but I have been making music since age 11. The years between 8 and 11 are a blur.
I went to sleep at night with my head a few feet away from the Atlantic Ocean. My goal is to write a song that feels like the shore during the winter. The wind blows mostly from the north east at that time of year, whistling through the sea oats and snow-capping the water.
After calling Florida my home for 20 years, I moved to Savannah, GA, the lone city in the South General Sherman supposedly refused to burn because of its beauty. It is a haunted city where I found love.
In 2004 I moved to Austin, TX where I continue to live.
This little creature has been keeping me busy lately:
Little Sylvie Wren was born 9/21/08.
In 2007 I released an album called The Garden Path.
For a complete list of recordings click here -----> DISCOGRAPHY
For a complete list of live shows (past, present, future) click here -----> SHOWS
If you are interested in reading reviews, click here -----> PRESS
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