Dancing On The Edge Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band SKU: TLV172LP Barcode: 5055869550949 31.00 £31.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Tough Love Released Date: 14th June 2024 Buying Format: 2LP Coloured Vinyl Forthcoming Pre Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info “This is the sound of someone bearing a torch.” – Bill Callahan “In his investigation of the human spirit, Davis has learned to embrace worry and wonder as companions for a restless heart. His place at the edge may be perilous, precarious, and occasionally lonely, but it’s got one hell of a view.” – Allison Hussey, Pitchfork – 7.9 / Best Rock Albums Of 2023 “At the frayed bottom-edge of Indiana – just a moderate bike ride north of LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – multi- instrumentalist, artist and songwriter RYAN DAVIS’ Americana-noir soundwaves have been emanating for years in a myriad of forms. As driving force for the lauded STATE CHAMPION, long-running member of TROPICAL TRASH, administrator of the esoteric and excellent CROPPED OUT festival, and lone proprietor of the SOPHOMORE LOUNGE label, Davis lays down his first proper ‘solo’ release with ‘DANCING ON THE EDGE’, a rich, 2LP tapestry of tunes that absolutely glows over seven expansive cuts. It’s a pure collage of modernity and heritage. “After a period of introspection spent re-immersing himself in his drawing & painting practice, as well as his newfound delvings into instrumental music, Davis’ sea change was imminent. ‘I wasn’t sure I would ever make another record of ‘song’ songs,’ he says, ‘but last year I started writing again and it eventually took the shape of the record at hand. I worked painstakingly hard on the material. It felt virtually impossible to complete for a bulk of the time I spent trying to enter into it, but the process pulled me out of a strange place. I was eventually able to live inside of the songs enough to understand the world within them – to ultimately help shape them into what I understood them to be.’ Indeed, there’s a load of inspiration captured in the grooves with Ryan’s unfiltered, folk – traditioned approach to poetic twists-of-tongue meeting head on with sublime instrumentation. “Recorded in early 2023 with help both in-studio and remotely from peers like CATHERINE IRWIN (Freakwater), JOAN SHELLEY, WILL LAWRENCE (Felice Brothers, John Early), JENNY ROSE (Giving Up), and CHRISTOPHER MAY (Mail the Horse), Davis draws backup perhaps primarily from his tight-knit drinking buddies-cum-cast of collaborators in EQUIPMENT POINTED ANKH (records on Astral Editions, Bruit Direct Disques among others) – a fiveheaded hive-mind from which he drew impetus for his own foray into more abstract and improvisational terrain these past few years under the ROADHOUSE alias. The results herein are melancholic, gentle, minimal yet colorful in mood: a lilting highway accompaniment of crisp instrumentation and a relaxed, amiable approach to vocals with rhapsodic wordsmithery. Fans of the aforementioned artists as well as those of Souled American, David Berman, Kurt Vile and ‘Comes A Time’-era Neil should all easily find bounty. “While bare-boned and uncluttered in presentation, many of these pieces track over 6 minutes allowing a fair amount of expansiveness. ‘Flashes of Orange’ percolates with synthetic and organic percussion while Davis ruminates on how ‘a steady drip falls from the ceiling to my forehead / a pitter-patter of my past mistakes’ as a Cale-esque violin chatters through impressionistic fields of pedal steel. It’s got an absence of recurring verses, replaced by an ever-unfolding story, words spotlighted by tasteful flanging synths and lovely key shifts as finally the titular hook lifts its proceedings up into the clouds. Other times the humor shines: tales of a jukebox that ‘only plays ‘Sultans of Swing’ in ‘Junk Drawer Heart’, ruminations like ‘soon I’ll be seen as a problem for the neighbors / soon I’ll be seen as a trophy for the precinct’ in ‘Free From the Guillotine’, and of course the simple proclamation of ‘A Suitable Exit’ being ‘I never asked to be born / I was only wondering where the door went to.’ “Tracked and mixed by SETH MANCHESTER at Machines With Magnets (Pawtucket, Rl) and mastered for vinyl by TOHRU KOTETSU at Tokyo’s legendary JVC Mastering Center, ‘sing Dancing On The Edge’ stares down into the navel of the American Experience underbelly with a fair amount of outward reach. Besides the Kosmische-synth and violin stabs reaching into a European element, stately organ swells build a musical bridge between 1969 Southern California and Felt’s latter era smooth moves, with layers of intelligent gesture taking this well beyond the realm of its archetypal indie troubadour/acoustic songwriter tag. Music and mint juleps never went down so well together.” – Brian Turner, 2023 Artist Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band Genre Americana / Country Label Tough Love Buying Options 2LP Coloured Vinyl Format 2LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings Free From the Guillotine Learn 2 Re-Luv Flashes of Orange Bluebirds in a Fight Junk Drawer Heart A Suitable Exit Bluebirds Revisited Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Americana / Country View Product Quick View Andrew Combs Ideal Man Americana / Country | New West | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 20th September 2019 £16.00 Select options Andrew Combs Ideal Man £16.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: New West Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 20th September 2019 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Johnny Cash Live At Town Hall Party 1958 Americana / Country | Sundazed | 180g, 1LP Released 7th July 2016 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Johnny Cash Live At Town Hall Party 1958 £28.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Sundazed SKU: SUNDAZEDLP5170 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 7th July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders On Sale View Product Quick View k.d. lang Drag Americana / Country | Warner Records | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Etched Released 29th August 2020 £19.00 £38.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations k.d. lang Drag £19.00 £38.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Warner Records SKU: 93624895619 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Etched Released Date: 29th August 2020 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Hard Working Americans Hard Working Americans Americana / Country | Melvin Records | 1LP Released 17th February 2014 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hard Working Americans Hard Working Americans £17.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Melvin Records SKU: MR223471 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th February 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Buddy & Julie Miller In The Throes Americana / Country | New West | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Signed Released 22nd September 2023 £27.00 Select options Buddy & Julie Miller In The Throes £27.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: New West Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Signed Released Date: 22nd September 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Darling West While I was Asleep Americana / Country | Jansen Records | 1LP Released 16th March 2018 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Darling West While I was Asleep £18.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Jansen Records SKU: JANSEN097LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th March 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Giant Sand The Sun Set Volume 1 Americana / Country | Fire Records | 8LP, Box Set Released 1st September 2017 £51.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Giant Sand The Sun Set Volume 1 £51.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Fire Records SKU: FAME007LP Formats: 8LP, Box Set Released Date: 1st September 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sam Doores Sam Doores Americana / Country | New West | 1LP Released 13th March 2020 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sam Doores Sam Doores £16.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: New West SKU: NW5374LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th March 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Carrie Rodriguez Love And Circumstance Americana / Country | Diverse Records | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 10th November 2011 £20.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Carrie Rodriguez Love And Circumstance £20.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Diverse Records SKU: DIV032LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 10th November 2011 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket Nearly New View Product Quick View Various Texas Guitar – From Dallas To L.A. 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