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Ryan Anderson was raised in Northeast Florida, on the same soil as Vic Chesnutt, Gram Parsons and Pat Boone. He began recording on a tape recorder at an early age. He continued to call Northeast Florida his home, and grew to love the fierce thunderstorms, hurricane evacuations, and Noreasterns the region had to offer. After awhile he moved to Savannah, GA, the lone city in the South that General Sherman supposedly refused to burn because of its beauty. Here Ryan hunkered down in an apartment on Wilmington Island and recorded his first full length, Trains Take Away Old Friends . The year was 2004 and he was inspired by the Southeast Georgia post industrial revolution landscape of empty factories, grass overgrowing train tracks, broken down tug boats and the song, "On Top of Old Smoky." Years later Ryan finds himself in Austin, TX still recording on cassette eleven new fictional stories called, The Garden Path , which is an album set for release in July 2007 on Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records. The songs here are not about famous people. They are about regular individuals as they struggle with the deterioration of their family, their environment, their community and their government. Jorge Luis Borges once wrote, "I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left." But the end message of The Garden Path is one of hope. There will be an end to this destruction!