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Dylan Ward
12+ albums
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When he first picked up his father's old nylon-string guitar in high school, Dylan Ward was too impatient to master many of the rock songs he wanted to play, so he began writing his own songs as a way to practice without becoming disenchanted. Thus, a two-decade love affair with songwriting was born. Dylan grew up in southwest Virginia, and the Appalachian bluegrass and redneck country of the area, as well as the ubiquitous classic rock radio, can be heard as a background influence on his music. Pop-rockers like Buffalo Tom, the Gin Blossoms and The Wallflowers were early direct influences. Classic rock/country-blues artists like Neil Young and The Rolling Stones, as well as more modern acts like Wilco, Son Volt, and Josh Ritter have each helped to define Dylan's sound today. Dylan performed frequently as a solo act and in local bands while pursuing graduate studies in geology at the University of Colorado. After 2 years as a founding member of the successful Boulder, CO alt-country outfit The Whiskey Bottles, Dylan took a day job as a research scientist in Albuquerque, NM. The following year's work resulted in his second solo album, "The Chasing Of The Storm", released in Sept. 2011. Dylan plays as a solo act in and around Albuquerque, and occasionally on trips back to Boulder, where he has a standing invitation to sit in with The Whiskey Bottles. He is currently building a band in Albuquerque that draws upon the alt-country roots of the Bottles and fuses them with modern
