{"product_id":"ryley-walker-golden-sings-that-have-been-sung-deep-cuts-edition-2cd","title":"Ryley Walker- Golden Sings That Have Been Sung (Deep Cuts Edition) [2CD]","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe preceding years have been extraordinary for Ryley Walker. In March, his second album, Primrose Green, emerged to critical hosannas from the likes of NPR, Village Voice, Uncut, and Mojo - in the process, earning admiration of musicians who had chalked up no shortage of turntable miles in Walker's life. Robert Plant declared himself a fan - as did double-bass legend Danny Thompson, with whom Ryley would later embark on a British tour. A sprawling tour of the USA around Primrose Green presented a perfect chance to workshop ideas for what would eventually become his third studio album, Golden Sings That Have Been Sung. On the album, \"The Roundabout\" represents a symbolic return to Chicago, while other songs are directly wedded to Ryley's actual return there. Perhaps more than any other song on the record, the somnambulant sun-dappled intimacies of opening track \"The Halfwit In Me\" most audibly bear the imprint of Ryley's improvisational sessions with Wilco multi-instrumentalist, Chicagoan and producer Leroy Bach, while \"Funny Thing She Said\" is an unflinching study of separation set to a shimmeringly supple ensemble performance. Soft, slo-mo explosions of melody intermittently burst through the distant thunder of the verses on \"A Choir Apart\". Intriguing, surreal images are meted out by \"I Will Ask You Twice\", like a malfunctioning slide projector; and, perhaps best of all, the stunning finale, \"Age Old Tale\", which spiders out from an Alice Coltrane-inspired reverie into a sustained rapture that very few artists have managed to achieve.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46983165640925,"sku":"656605142425","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3447606-2609807.jpg?v=1762924865","url":"https:\/\/shop.darksiderecords.com\/products\/ryley-walker-golden-sings-that-have-been-sung-deep-cuts-edition-2cd","provider":"Darkside Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}