RYAN HOLWEGER

Syracuse’s Ryan Holweger’s latest album “The Golden Paper Flower” breezes in like a breath of fresh air. The album opens with a couple of songs which have a touch of Israel Nash’s cosmic country sounds, wispy vocals swirling over spacey guitar, but there is more light and shade here than on the recent Nash albums, most evident on the billowing pedal steel laced ‘Bleed All Over’.  Holweger duets with Reagan Helen on the very attractive ‘Settle In Easy’ where the piano player sounds as if he’s playing in a last chance saloon and , for anyone who hankers for a hang dog tale which roams from plaintive banjo picking to a soaring rock chorus, ‘Dehydration’ is just the song for you. Highly recommended.