For more than a decade, Jimmy Ryan has electrified the Boston music scene with his fusion of bluegrass pickin' and driving edge rock

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COUNTRY: Bluegrass, COUNTRY: Country Rock



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A founding member of The Blood Oranges and Beacon Hillbillies, Ryan has been a long-standing element of the roots-rock scene. Having also made mandolin contributions on recordings by the likes of Dumptruck, Buttercup, Cheri Knight, Mary Gauthier, Catie Curtis, Warren Zevon and even Morphine, it's high time he released a solo disc. Lost Diamond Angel combines Ryan's accumulative styles into one experience. Running the gamut through folk, down from the mountain grass, roots-rock, hootenanny and Southern-rock, he proves he can apply his mandolin abilities to a variety of styles with ease - even psyche, as he exhibits on album closer "Boneheaded". "Diamonds" sounds vaguely like The Band and "I Am Lost" much like Morphine, which stands to reason, since Morphine's Billy Conway plays drums throughout most of this dynamic record. (Ambitious Recordings No. 13)