Matthew Ryan (born November 7, 1971) is an American singer-songwriter whose music can be roughly characterized as alternative country. Ryan also collaborated with Neilson Hubbard to form the band Strays Don't Sleep. Ryan's voice has been described as a "hushed rasp, with words catching like vows destined to be broken - one of modern music's most potent whispers."
==May Day==Perhaps the most underrated singer/songwriter of the past 12 years, Matth...
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Matthew Ryan (born November 7, 1971) is an American singer-songwriter whose music can be roughly characterized as alternative country. Ryan also collaborated with Neilson Hubbard to form the band Strays Don't Sleep. Ryan's voice has been described as a "hushed rasp, with words catching like vows destined to be broken - one of modern music's most potent whispers."
==May Day==Perhaps the most underrated singer/songwriter of the past 12 years, Matthew Ryan arrived on the music scene in 1997 with Mayday. A combination of influences from Tom Waits, Waterboys and Bruce Springsteen can all be heard here, but the sound and songwriting are Matthew Ryan's alone.
From the kick start of Guilty, the record / cd takes the listener on a great ride. Storytelling and writing likes this are a thing of the past, like diamond selling cds. With a major label budget and top level musicians supporting, this is a start to finish listen with no skips in between.
Guilty is a first rate rocker that in an...
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