Album Of The Week: Ryley Walker Course In Fable

Ever since Ryley Walker moved to New York, his albums have sounded unmistakably like Chicago. Walker called the Windy City home for years, eagerly subsuming many corners of its music scene into his own creative DNA. Yet despite the band of Chicago jazz musicians he recorded it with, if Walker’s 2015 breakthrough Primrose Green sounded like anywhere in the world, it was the British Isles. That album’s 1960s-vintage English folk stylings began to morph on his 2016 follow-up Golden Sings Tha...

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