A poem I wrote wound up in the liner of an album.

[spotify id=”spotify%3Aalbum%3A3nT6KSqGMRP9JxPx60uRbm&view=coverart” width=”500″ height=”580″ /] At some point in the near future I’ll stop posting stuff about Ryan Culwell’s album “Flatlands”. But in the mean time, you should listen to it here. Listen like a 1000 times, so he’ll draw a royalty check. Or buy it here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/flatlands/id964081806 Rolling Stone says: …startling moments — the places […]

Ryan Culwell’s Flatlands

Ryan Culwell’s “Flatlands” turns five years old next week.

http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:uma:video:cmt.com:1161226/cp~vid%3D1161226%26uri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Acmt.com%3A1161226 Get More: “There is a highway shot of those awful wind turbines in the beginning of the video,” he says. “If you follow that road another 40 miles, you’ll end up at the Adobe Walls, where 28 hunters defeated 700 Indians in 1874. Billy Dixon shot a warrior off his horse from a mile away […]

deadmanstown: “There is something magical about youth and ‘Bobby Jean’ sings like a dirge reminding you that the kid you once saw in the mirror is gone, and he is not. It’s not closure that Springsteen’s plain words give you, but they seem to be pointing to an open ended grief – in some regard, […]

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVobBhNbUtE?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=500&h=281] “Those who imitate, imitate agents who must be either admirable or inferior. (Character almost always corresponds to just these two categories, since everyone is differentiated in character by defect or excellence.) Alternatively they must be better people than we are, or worse, or of the same sort…Homer imitates better people; Cleophon, people similar […]

[spotify id=”spotify%3Auser%3A122351017%3Aplaylist%3A2qc8STZPA5tMmMSDCeNRKe&view=coverart” width=”500″ height=”580″ /] Here: Ryan Culwell. Winter Wheat. It’s beautiful.  And heads up: a full length album comes out next year (hush hush, from the same people that have brought you Jason Isbell’s recent and stunning Southeastern). Or if you prefer Soundcloud

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z31Ayr7Vs90?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=500&h=281] I’m posting another of @RyanCulwell’s songs, for which I sort of apologize to my 42 followers on Tumblr. Sort of, but not really. I mean, chances are you are probably a mutual friend of mine and Ryan’s anyway, so you’ll be listening to it regardless. However, there’s a small chance that we’ve never […]

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZFfTLWP0sc?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=500&h=281] I felt as though the theme of this song were appropriate today (Ash Wednesday). Plus, half the video was shot on the land I grew up tending (in winter in drought). (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Winter Wheat (EP Review)

Normal.dotm 0 0 1 343 1960 Arbor Christian Academy 16 3 2407 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false Ryan Culwell’s last studio album, Heroes on the Radio, was released in 2006. Since then he led the rock band The Young Senators through a storm of shows in oil-field bars across West Texas before […]