![]() ![]() In 2015, Ryan Adams’ covered Taylor Swift’s smash 1989, releasing it while Swift was still supporting that on tour (the two often chatted about it on Twitter while he was still recording it). ![]() But eventually, he found the creative direction he wanted to take it, describing it as “Dave through the filter of Drag City records.” He’s referring to the Chicago label, as well as a post-rock sound that bands like Tortoise and the Sea and Cake draw from - along with labels like Thrill Jockey and Touch & Go.Ĭovering an another artist’s album start to finish isn’t a new concept – the Flaming Lips released an album in 2014 called With a Little Help From My Fwends, a trippy track-by-track take on the Beatles’ Sgt. Initially, he just played along with the original recordings. And it took months of pre-planning, where Walker says he listened to The Lillywhite Sessions “about 500 times” and worked for two months straight, getting down the arrangements. But the project wasn’t a spur of the moment endeavor he had been kicking around this idea for a while. Walker recorded the 12 songs that appear on The Lillywhite Sessions in a four-day burst back in January 2018 in Chicago, while he was waiting for the release of Deafman Glance in May, his fourth album of original material. Many of the songs would eventually be re-recorded for Dave Matthews Band’s 2002 album Busted Stuff, which didn’t feature Lillywhite as the producer, but instead British producer Stephen Harris. Named after famed producer Steve Lillywhite, who Dave Matthews Band was working with at the time, The Lillywhite Sessions leaked to the internet in the spring of 2001, and featured a number of songs like “Busted Stuff,” “Grace Is Gone,” and “Diggin’ a Ditch” - songs that had yet to make it to an official studio recording, though they had been worked into the band’s live set at that point. Mqs.link_RyleyWalkerTheLillywhiteSessins20182444.1.Dave Matthews Band Album Covers Ranked From Worst to Best On The Lillywhite Sessions, he has, in turn, created his own. Walker has stepped through the door long ago opened by the Dave Matthews Band to find a world teeming with musical possibilities. This end-to-end interpretation of youthful fascination is a collective reminder that we are all just kids from somewhere, reckoning with our upbringing the best we can. Walker’s “Grace is Gone,” the most faithful take here, is a testament to his unflagging love for the music that helped make him a musician. Emerging from a wall of distortion, “Diggin’ a Ditch” becomes a power trio wallop a la Dinosaur Jr, shaking off existential malaise like twentysomething pals writing rock songs in the garage. With a delicate rhythmic latticework and vocals that ask you to lean in, “Busted Stuff” recalls Jim O’ Rourke’s golden Drag City days. ![]() On The Lillywhite Sessions, Ryley Walker and the similarly indebted trio of drummer Ryan Jewell and bassist Andrew Scott Young cover Dave Matthews’ infamously abandoned 2001 art-rock masterpiece of the same name, a record where he and his band indulged a new adult pathos and a budding musical wanderlust. Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dead Oceans Ryley Walker – The Lillywhite Sessions (2018)įLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:14:27 minutes | 760 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Folk Rock ![]()
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