If you're looking for something a little mellow to listen to on a dreary winter day, then Ryley Walker might be your guy. His new single, 'Primrose Green,' will no doubt help you float into the ...

These days, the term “young folk artist” typically implies mountain-man affectations and cute ukuleles. Fortunately, that’s not the case with Ryley Walker. Rather than specializing in earnest, ...

The fine yet still really quite obvious line between drawing inspiration from and just plain ripping off past masters is headline material again following the damages those responsible for Neanderthal ...

The title track of Ryley Walker’s second album answers a question no one ever asked: how would it sound if Tim Buckley had written his own version of Afroman’s Because I Got High? The Primrose Green ...

In July 2012, as Wicker Park Fest wound down, Chicago guitarist Ryley Walker was riding his bike south on Damen below Division when a hit-and-run driver clipped him from behind. He woke up in the ...

ROCKFORD — Guitarist Ryley Walker, a kid of local skate parks and punk bands, once set a high school goal of playing guitar before 50,000 people. If it doesn't happen it won't disappoint Walker, 26.

Chicago folk guitarist Ryley Walker belongs to the new school of finger pickers — one that includes the likes of Steve Gunn, William Tyler and Daniel Bachman — that owes as much to the 1960s British ...

Ryley Walker is the newest artist to join the Dead Oceans roster after gaining some recognition for his well-received debut album All Kinds Of You last year. "Primrose Green" -- the lead single and ...

If you thought that the last word in folky period detail was offered by the Coen brothers in their movie Inside Llewyn Davis, then you’ll be fascinated by Chicago’s Ryley Walker. On the cover of his ...