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Formed: 2005
iSound Site: www.isound.com/caleb_ryder
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When people ask me what kind of music I play, I have to first question myself.....every time. I want to play every style, and play every style well. In this modern country driven by categories, I would adore being the chameleon.
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| Caleb Ryder @ Tornado's on 04.22.06 | | Venue: | Tornado's | | Date: | 04.22.06 | | Time: | 9:00 pm | | Location: | Iowa City, IA [US] | | Price: | $5 | | Description: | Caleb Ryder & Friends roll into Cedar Rapids, Iowa. |
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When people ask me what kind of music I play, I have to first question myself.....every time. I want to play every style, and play every style well. In this modern country driven by categories, I would adore being the chameleon.
I guess it comes from when I was young. From age five, I wanted to be able to immitate any kind of singing I heard. My dad bought me a guitar back then sometime, but I was just a little too young and hyper to sit and play. But, everywhere I went, I was singing. It really annoyed the shit out of some people. I've always had this saying that said,"Vocals are the only instrument that you can practice no matter what you're doing." So, from age five to about eight I sang on stage with my Dad and my brother Shiloh.
It wasn't until I was about sixteen that I really picked up the guitar with the intention of learning how to play it. After singing for so many years, playing the guitar and singing at the same time came very easy to me. My focus from the moment I picked up the guitar was to write lyrics, and it wasn't but a few months later that I wrote my first song. I've absorbed alot from groups like Sublime, Slightly Stoopid, Days of the New, Eminem, Ben Harper, Tracy Chapman, Sage Francis, Jack Johnson, Fiona Apple, Chris Cornell, and Atmosphere.
In 2000 I recorded my first CD entitled "Curse of the Gypsy's Blood", and was lucky enough to catch the eye/ear of Wonderlabs Global Entertainment, a video production company. Toghether we recorded a music video called "Elijah Pike", a song written by my father, in which my brother Shiloh and I played the main characters. My Dad is in a wheel chair as the result of a car accident now, so I was honored to be able to bring one of his creations to life in such a way.
In 2004 I realeased my second, and most diverse CD. I named it "Seasoned Salt", meaning aged, harbored thoughts and feelings. It features a more diverse aray of genres/styles than almost any album I have ever heard, seamlessly blending raggae, rock, ska, rap, comedy, folk, and alternative. In 2005 Wonderlabs, now bigger and better, flew me to Atlanta, GA and shot a music video for "Youngblood", a track from "Seasoned Salt." I was blessed enough to be able to have that video shot on a $170,000 Panasonic High Definition Vericam package. It made me feel like everything I had been trying to do over the last five years was finally starting to manifest itself into the real. My main focus now is to get out there and tour, and to find the people to promote/book me, so I can focus my real work, writing music. In a Ben Harper song, he says, "The unfinished work of our heroes, must truly be our own." With each song I write, I try to take over where my heroes have left off. What we create, is merely a reflection of what we like, and I like almost everything. At this point in my life I want nothing more than to get my music into the right hands. I just hope that whoever listens to any of my music views it as something marketable, original, and without boundaries.
-Caleb Ryder
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