Ryan Delmore Review
Music Review - taken from www.todayscountrymag.com
Band: RYAN DELMORE
Album: The Spirit, The Water, And The Blood
Label: Varietal Records
In this day and age where so much music is created to have a particular sound fit for mainstream radio, you have to dig deep from time to time to discover an artist that blurs genres and delivers an album chalked full of passion. With his debut album, Ryan Delmore proves to be one of those artists. The singer/songwriter combines his influences that are steeped rich in gospel and Christian beliefs and combines it with an Americana based sound. His raspy vocals and acoustic guitar bring you into the album on “Mercy,” as he crafts a lyric about being forgiven and washed of sins. This acoustic style that originally captures your attention continues to be displa yed throughout the album on tracks like “Teach Me All Your Ways,” “Nowhere To Be Seen,” and album closer, “Love of God.” However, he also chooses to wear his influences from the rock and country genres proudly on his sleeve as well on this album. Tracks like “Provide For Me” introduce a more Neil Young type sound to the album as the music behind the vocals and catchy guitar riff take center stage to draw you into the song, as well as on “The World Can’t Take It Away,” where Delmore will have you tapping your feet along with the rhythm section as he brings a Tom Petty-esque style to the forefront. More often than not it is the lyric and vocals that act as the focal point of this collection of songs and Delmore masks his Americana style around a passionate delivery of them, and most proves that he isn’t afraid to sing about what he believes in on his debut effort.
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