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. 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."
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.â€
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
