Ryan Sambol- Friend of the Show

Ryan Sambol’s Friend of the Show, released with quiet precision on the first Sunday of February, draws on the well-worn blues canon—century-old melodies, cheeky, vaudeville narratives, and the wild abandon of West Texas—remolding them into something unmistakably his own. The album, with its raw, full-throttle barroom energy and blazing poetry, grapples with aging, legacy, and the oddly grounding, unexpected moments that rise up between the chaos.