ARTIST: Ryan Lindsey TITLE: White Paper Beds LABEL: CD Baby GENRE: Rock TIME: 37:09 min SIZE: 53,1 MB RIP DATE: Sep-26-2006 RELEASE DATE: Sep-26-2006 WEBSITE: n/a Track List: 01. Future Unemployment 02:52 02. My Place In The Hills 02:56 03. An Intropsective Personality 03:47 04. Slow Down 02:53 05. A Weekend With You 03:12 06. White Paper Beds 02:45 07. Summertime 03:01 08. What I Am 03:14 09. Put Your Trust In Ross 03:25 10. Sounds, As A Metaphor 03:25 11. Friend For Life 02:13 12. Open Late 03:26 Release Notes: Ryan Lindsey was just five years old when he first appeared on stage in a local church play in Stillwater, Oklahoma. And he loved it. He can't remember the moment, but he still remembers the feeling. To this day, Ryan's more at home on stage than he is anywhere else. Young Ryan's theatrical career blossomed throughout his grade school years, appearing in play after play in community productions, church shows and turns in Oklahoma State University productions whenever they needed younger kids for the cast. At the tender age of 8, Ryan joined the prestigious Stillwater Boys Choir where he learned phrasing, breath control and vocal technique which has served him so well to this day. The youngest of three brothers, Ryan had a paper route, his siblings had a band. When the boys lost a member they told Ryan he could join the group if he'd just buy a bass guitar. He did. Ryan Lindsey joined his first real band. After the group went their separate ways, Ryan began playing guitar, piano and writing his own material. As he worked on his solo endeavors, Ryan started the short-lived band Claire and later joined the Norman, Oklahoma based group, Cheyenne. In Cheyenne he played keyboards and sang harmony with lead vocalist Beau Jennings. Lindsey made an immense contribution to Cheyenne's debut album and played with the band until they relocated to New York in 2005. During his stint with Cheyenne, Ryan emerged as a singer/songwriter and solo performer. His live solo shows increased in regularity and featured him on five instruments. He added a loop pedal and a microphone to make his performances wholly original while still accentuating the core melodies of his songs. He also began working on his first solo album White Paper Beds. Then along came the Starlight Mints, Norman's most accomplished band with an offer for Ryan to play on their newest release Drowation. Impressed by Lindsey's studio work, the band asked him to play keyboards and guitar on their current national tour. The timing couldn't have been better as Ryan had just put the finishing touches on his remarkable debut effort White Paper Beds. White Paper Beds features Ryan Lindsey on vocals, guitar, bass and piano with instrumental assistance from friend and engineer Chad Copelin. On July 3, 2006, Ryan's former bandmates in Cheyenne reunited with him to perform live in celebration of his self-produced solo debut. Perhaps it's the recent history of performing his original material regionally before audiences of his peers throughout the mid-west or merely his confidence realized from a lifetime on the stage, but Ryan Lindsey exudes a persona, style and performance quality that is unsurpassed by his contemporaries. Music critic Kathleen McCann concludes her rave review of White Paper Beds in the respected online publication Urban Pollution by writing..."It's daunting for a musician to break away from the comforts of a band and step out on his own, but Ryan Lindsey seemed to know exactly what he was doing. If his name never becomes widely known it won't matter, because White Paper Beds is more real than pop success ever is." As a current touring member of local favorites the Starlight Mints Ryan Lindsey is ready to realize his own vision for the future. His self-released debut album White Paper Beds is finding it's way into the mainstream, not because of Ryan's marketing expertise or clever website exposure, no, it's the music, the lyrics, the arrangements and his incredible vocals. That's why, one by one, Ryan Lindsey is finding new fans and friends.