In January, he heads to Australia for five shows before touring Great Britain in February. and Europe, where Walker has toured a half dozen times.

Wileman has booked gigs for Walker in both the U.S. Obviously, Dead Oceans does his records now, I very happily stepped into the management role when he needed one this year.' 'He was clearly an amazing musician and we have been trying to figure out a way to work together since then - whether records or management, or both. 'Love at first sight,' Wileman said in an email. 'I'm still a pretty small fish,' said Walker, who moved from Loves Park to Chicago for college at age 17 before deciding that guitar, not school, was his calling.

Nielsen Music said the album, which Walker describes as a 'psychedelic groovy record,' has been streamed online about 443,000 times. Pitchfork called the album's 10 songs, 'acts of pure creative anachronism and affection.'ĭead Oceans, Walker's record label, says 11,000 copies of the album have been sold, about 9,000 on CD and 2,000 downloads, in the U.S. 'A headphone trip for the ages' proclaimed the website Popmatters, 'Primrose Green is a diaphanous tapestry that envelops our musical history.' 'Like a lost relic from 1970s,' said a critic for The Guardian, a London paper, calling 'Primrose Green' stoned, summery, folk jazz. and Europe, conjuring comparisons to post-World War II British folk music with a Chicago twist. His album, ' Primrose Green,' released in March on well-known indie record label Dead Oceans, was greeted with acclaim and awe by critics in the U.S. He's become an acoustic fingerpicker with a style that critics say transcends genre and belies his age. After graduating from Harlem High School in 2007, his path as a guitarist has turned to a sound more suited to a Parisian listening room than a massive festival. If it doesn't happen it won't disappoint Walker, 26.

ROCKFORD - Guitarist Ryley Walker, a kid of local skate parks and punk bands, once set a high school goal of playing guitar before 50,000 people.

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