The rustic alt. country and poignant folk songs of Ryland Moranz are populated by real and imagined heroes and villains, the everyday and the extraordinary, the trials of life and matters of the heart. His compositions span bygone days, the here and now, and what may yet be to come, for himself and us all through lyrically poetic, earthy gritty roots rockers and moving, nostalgic balladry, propelled by Ryland’s clawhammer banjo, electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, mandola and harmonica.