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RYAN HOWELL Known for his innovative songwriting and vocals, Ryan Howell has been gaining fans from California to Costa Rica with every performance. Ryan performs primarily as a solo vocalist/guitarist, but also incorporates duo and band performances to suit the situation. Ryan’s music reflects his love of the ocean and a stress-free lifestyle. Soulful lyrics, simple arrangements, and a unique voice round out a sound and style that is worthy of comparison to today’s national touring acts of the surf and beach sound genre. You can hear the influence of some of his favorite artists in his compositions, such as Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, G Love, Bob Marley, Sublime, Wu Tang Clan, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Elmore James, and Howlin’ Wolf. Growing up in Southern California, Ryan picked up music at a young age, and has maintained it as a daily pursuit throughout his life. He trained his voice by singing in his church choir as a child and picked up the guitar in high school. Starting with dorm room jam sessions on his college campus, he quickly moved onto weekly open-mic nights. Also during this time, Ryan began traveling to Costa Rica and performing at various music clubs in the surf towns of the Guanacaste Peninsula. It is there that he cultivated a grass roots following of international fans as well as honing his live performance skills. In addition to Costa Rica, Ryan has played gigs all over Southern California as well the world famous Fillmore in San Francisco. His debut cd entitled Big on Pooh, was produced as a live recording of just Ryan, his guitar, and a microphone. It is inspiring in its direct simplicity, bringing the listener into the most intimate musical experience. And the audience loves it – Ryan frequently sells out his CDs at live performances. Must listens on the album are tracks 1, 2, 9, 10, & 14....
K.R. Holt-Haugen

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Member Since: 7/15/2005
Band Website: You made it! Welcome!
Band Members: pooh
Influences: kenny laubacher, elizabeth petty, jesus, laren, jason, and bobby and teh entire invisible children staff, The yonemoto family, the kruds, joel p west, Red Hunter, Emily Smith, Janalyn Yanover, Kelli Noftle, Knorphus, Big Pork(best Air guitarist in the whole worlld), FINE WHITE CHINA, my freind ... Mary, God, Nevertee, Bob Marley, The McIntosh brothers(all of them), Sage Francis, life, peabody, the moon, Sublime of coarse, Nano, and did I mention GOD?oh yeah, DeBlois Milledge, Greg McGrath, traveling musicians who are traveling and are cool and good at what they do, there are so many, Mississippi John, Tristan Prettyman, G-Love and the Special Sauce, KR, and time itself.RYAN HOWELL: Big On Pooh

Its a background of folk/hip-hop/blues/reggae all mixed in a very raw acoustic fashion. This album was recorded with simplicity in mind. It is a one track live recording. No auto tone. No effects. This is how it would sound if you came to see me play.

Sounds Like: Ive been told I sound like an old black man by a river, i love it! * * *sign up for my mailing list...
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My Blog

DeBlois Milledge - Singer Songwriter who is awesome that you all need to know about. . .

Hey check out this link www.debloismusic.com She is a surfy beutifuly talented young lady out of Florida. And she is also a personal friend of mine and is lovely to meet and be around if you ever get...
Posted by POOH on Sun, 23 Oct 2005 02:22:00 PST

Invisible Children - Watch this movie

Hey,       This is a must see by everyone in the world. Something anything has to be done about what is going on in Uganda. Its crazy inhumane stuff and the more aware the world is...
Posted by POOH on Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:21:00 PST

Really good music

www.myspace.com/plee2 - Underground hip hop www.myspace.com/finewhitechina - these are my homies and they rock all our socks off!! www.myspace.com/rachelbradytrio - Beautiful voice - me...
Posted by POOH on Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:16:00 PST

Cd on sale at cdbaby.com

Hey yall,       here's the link to where you can buy my cd ...     <!-- CDBABY LINK for RYAN HOWELL: Big On Pooh --><TABLE width="400" border="0" cellspacing="0...
Posted by POOH on Sun, 16 Oct 2005 02:14:00 PST