2nd SINGLE FROM NEW
ALBUM BETTER/WORSE
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Alberta musician Ryland Moranz shares his single and video 'The Hell Of This Town' out now on all digital streaming platforms via Tonic Records. Listen here.
A folk/bluegrass multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter from Lethbridge, Ryland’s highly anticipated new album, Better/Worse, will be released on November 15th. Blending traditional country instrumentation with a modern edge,'The Hell Of This Town' is the 2nd single to be released from Better/Worse following lead single 'When I'm Gone'. And although the title may be misleading, Ryland actually wrote the track as a love song for his wife.
Says Ryland: “For as far back as I can remember, I’ve wanted to be a touring musician. Not only that, I wanted to be the kind of musician that slept on people’s couches and was never in any place too long. Not a great life plan, but a romantic notion. I really think that’s me in a nutshell. A terminal romantic. When I started touring full time, I found to my surprise that whenever I was on the road, I wanted to be home; and inversely, whenever I was home, I wanted to be on the road. It was a complicated reconciliation. ‘The Hell of This Town’ is my coming to terms with the present. The immediacy of longing and the entropy of the cosmos. It’s a love song to my wife. It’s a lament for the old things. A remembrance of joy. A promise to spend my days exactly where I am, no matter where that is.”
Recorded by John Raham at Barnhouse Studios in Qualicum, BC, and produced by Ryland and Leeroy Stagger, Better/Worse, takes an earnest snapshot of a world emerging from the brink, or rather, from one brink to another. A spiritual successor to Ryland’s acclaimed 2021 offering XO, 1945, Better/Worse turns the focus from where we have been to where we may be going.
'The Hell Of This Town' is available now on Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, and other digital retailers and streaming services worldwide. For more information, please visit: rylandmoranz.com.
Tracklisting:
Ryland Moranz- Better/Worse
(Tonic Records)
01. New Civil War
02. Goodbye To All That
03. When I'm Gone
04. The Hell Of This Town
05. Storm On The Ocean
06. Do You Need Me
07. I've Been Calling
08. Nobody's Going To Heaven
09. Never
10. You Can't Stop Love