RYAN DAVIS & THE ROADHOUSE BAND - "Dancing on the Edge" CS

Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band sing Dancing on the Edge Cassette (Ever/Never, 2023) "A pure collage of modernity and heritage." - Brian Turner “This is the sound of someone bearing a torch.” - Bill Callahan "In Kurt Vonnegut’s debut novel, 1952’s Player Piano, the author delivered one of his defining ideas through the mouth of his character Ed Finnerty: “Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center… Big, undreamed-of things—the people on the edge see them first.” Seventy years on, this Kentucky-based songwriter traces life’s edges in the same spirit, contemplating the human capacities for open-hearted euphoria and harrowing pain... In his investigation of the human spirit, Davis has learned to embrace worry and wonder as companions for a restless heart. His place at the edge may be perilous, precarious, and occasionally lonely, but it’s got one hell of a view." - Allison Hussey (Pitchfork, *7.9 / Best Rock Albums of 2023) "After more than fifteen