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Ryley Walker's 'The Lillywhite Sessions' is a beautiful love letter to a forgotten chapter from the Dave Matthews Band: Album review

The Chicago-based folk rocker returns with his second album of the year, this time a fresh and earnest set of covers of Dave Matthews Band's long-forgotten scrapped album

This past May, Chicago folk rocker Ryley Walker unveiled his gorgeous fifth studio album 'Deafman Glance'. While most musicians would be more than happy to settle for one highly acclaimed record for a year, Walker refuses to settle, returning just six months later with yet another album. But there's something different about this one.

After four albums of traditional, jazzy folk-rock, (and one instrumental LP) the Chicago-based singer-songwriter solidified his sonic signature with 'Deafman Glance'. Now, Walker returns with something he's never done before - a covers album. Not just any collection of covers, but a track-by-track reimagining of 'The Lillywhite Sessions', the scrapped album by the Dave Matthews Band (DMB) that never saw the light of day, surfacing only as bootlegs on the internet in 2001.