Ryan Curtis - Ain't Ever Easy

Cat. no: ASDLP026
Format: LP
Barcode: 877746004988
Release Date: 11 Aug 2023
Genre: Country

The best thing about Ryan Curtis albums is his ability to cover all the country sub-genres: ballads, western music, honky-tonk, country-rock are all in his oeuvre

'Ain't Ever Easy' is the best example to date. The muscular, chooglin' beat of the country funk heater "Can't Take Back" opens Ryan Curtis' sophomore album 'Ain't Ever Easy.' Like a steam train gliding into some high desert station, it bears the strong vintage machinery of Curtis' "alt-country from the high country" sound. The song lopes in on oozing guitar and keys over a backbeat that pulses sexier than a breakup song has the right to be. Regret has rarely sounded this happy, but Curtis is capable of turning love and loss into dripping hot, powerful songs. Over the last decade the various styles of country have become Curtis' stock-in-trade. With a gravelly growl he paints cinematic pictures of picaresque people from the Midwest and the badlands; down and out townies, bar room drifters, forlorn lovers, and resilient loners fll his visionary tales, mournful subject matter he turns into country gold.

* Founding member of Curtis and Sutton & The Scavengers
* 2nd solo album, following 2021's 'Rust Belt Broken Heart'

Tracks: Can't Take Back / Codependent Heart / Wasted Energy / Drunk Tank / I Love This City / The Town / Good Corn Liquor / Cactus and Cocaine / Through the Trees