Ryan Anderson
Location:
Asheville, North Carolina, US
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Label:
Bi-Fi and Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records
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
Buy THE GARDEN PATH from iTUNES by CLICKING -->
or get it from Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records
Below is a video for a song off my first album, Trains Take Away Old Friends
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