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Ryan Davis, Old Pup
Arts + Literature Laboratory welcomes avant-folk musician Ryan Davis on Monday, April 7, 2025 at 7:00pm. Opening act: Milwaukee's Old Pup. Tickets $15 general admission or $12 student/ALL Member in advance online. Advance tickets available online at Brown Paper Tickets. General admission at the door $18 for everyone.
At the end of 2023, Kentuckiana-based visual artist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Ryan Davis self-released Dancing on the Edge, a seven-song, 53-minute basement folk opus, and the first collection of material produced under Davis birth name. His new album arrived after more than 15 years of releasing music on labels like Feeding Tube, Load Records, Astral Editions, Bruit Direct Disques, Petty Bunco, All Gone and others (including, if not primarily, his very own Sophomore Lounge imprint) as/alongside such outfits as State Champion, Tropical Trash, Equipment Pointed Ankh, Roadhouse, et al.
The tunes on the album range from bare-boned, achingly crooned avant-folk tales to jovial, collaborative excursions into long-form experimental country-tinged rock modes. Davis solo debut is a dense collection of Americana-Noir that navigates a familiar yet alternate reality, one of enchanted mundanity and uniquely Mid-Southern introspection. Simultaneously antisocial and outwardly inviting, free of cynicism yet slightly steeped in paranoia, Dancing on the Edge is as delicately choreographed and emotionally connective as it is, at times, absurd. Rolling Stone included Dancing on the Edge in its list of Best Indie-Rock Albums of 2023.
Opening act Old Pup is a warmly haunted folk outfit led by Milwaukee-based pedal steel player/songwriter, Will Hansen, who writes lyrically vivid (at-times experimental) country-tinged songs. Sophomore album, Spider Towns, features intimate, ethereal recordings captured in living rooms, warehouse hallways, & wide-open fields spanning Milwaukee, New Orleans, & New Mexico.
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LocationArts + Literature Laboratory (View)
111 S. Livingston St. #100
Madison, WI 53703
United States
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