Matthew Ryan May 6, 2011

Matthew Ryan grew up just south of Philadelphia in Chester, PA. He recently bought a house on a hill in Tennessee. His early loves and influences were The Clash, Doc Martens, The Replacements, MLK, Paul Buchanan's voice, blonde hair & Bob Dylan. He learned to play guitar when he was 17. Frustrated he couldn't learn other people's songs, he started writing his own soon after. His songs tend to be about girls, socio-political issues, people on the edges, breakups, brotherhood, hate, love, fighters and hope. Sometimes all in the same song. He prefers to think of them as songs for humans. He's released 10 records since his first record, May Day, was released in 1997.

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