The mischievous rocker sincerely covers the entirety of Dave Matthews Bands unreleased 2001 album. Matthews, who ends his note by announcing that he now owns Walker’s entire catalog, actually met his fellow singer-songwriter earlier this month, as Walker’s label Dead Oceans posted a photo of Matthews, Walker and members of his band, and DMB drummer Cater Beauford holding a vinyl copy of Walker’s Lillywhite Sessions. Ryley Walker Golden Sings That Have Been Sung Deep Cuts Edition Vinyl LP Record £37.48. Soon after Ryley Walker announced that his latest album would be a back-to-back cover of the Dave Matthews Band’s unreleased-but-leaked 2001 LP The Lillywhite Sessions, the 29-year-old indie. If you didn’t know what inspired it, it wouldn’t matter. Then I heard the words…” Matthews goes on to praise the originality of Walker’s creation, calling it “much more than a cover record.”
I’m in the indie rock world I can’t cover a Dave Matthews record without having to explain myself.
In post to the DMB Facebook page earlier today, Matthews notes when he initially encountered Walker’s version of his tracks: “The first time I heard Ryley’s cover of the Lilywhite Sessions, I was in a record store. Walker added, It’s all out of love, but there’s a little shred of irony in there. Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) Talks with Ryley Walker for the Talkhouse. Walker’s The Lillywhite Sessions serves as both an album and an argument: a thoughtfully constructed case that Dave Matthews Band was good, critics be damned, and that fans who flocked away from. In case you missed, it, singer-songwriter and Twitter champion Ryley Walker recently released his new LP The Lillywhite Sessions-a full-album cover of the lost turn-of-the-century Dave Matthews Band collection of the same name-and apparently Matthews himself is quite the fan of the new record. Ryley Walker on loving Dave Matthews Band and refusing to apologize for it.
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