The Spirit, The Water, And The Blood -Ryan Delmore

New release from Varietal Records!

Produced by friend and fellow worship leader Chris Lizotte and featuring guitarist Marc Ford, The Spirit, The Water, and The Blood is the ragged-but-true sound of a sinner saved by grace, lifting up a thankful heart to Jesus with his guitar and voice. In his debut release with Varietal, Ryan crafts simple songs with a poetic depth that invites his listeners to join him and lift their voices to commune with God.

Streams of country, rock, gospel, and folk blend together to create a unique musical backdrop upon which Ryan’s intimate worship and passionate praise are built. Ryan’s sound harkens back to that of artists like Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Tom Petty while resonating with the influence of fellow worship leaders John Barnett, Chris Lizotte, and Ireland’s Brian Houston.
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A worship leader in the Vineyard for over 15 years, Ryan has written and recorded several songs with Vineyard Music, including “Better Than Life,” “Set Me on Fire,” “Let It Come,” and “Jesus’ Name”. Ryan also contributed to the Vineyard Music albums, Your Love Reaches Me, The Burn Service and Never Looking Back.

In this day and age where so much music is created to have a particular sound fit for mainstream radio, you have to dig deep from time to time to discover an artist that blurs genres and delivers an album chalked full of passion. With his debut album, Ryan Delmore proves to be one of those artists. The singer/songwriter combines his influences that are steeped rich in gospel and Christian beliefs and combines it with an Americana based sound. His raspy vocals and acoustic guitar bring you into the album on “Mercy,” as he crafts a lyric about being forgiven and washed of sins. This acoustic style that originally captures your attention continues to be displa yed throughout the album on tracks like “Teach Me All Your Ways,” “Nowhere To Be Seen,” and album closer, “Love of God.” However, he also chooses to wear his influences from the rock and country genres proudly on his sleeve as well on this album. Tracks like “Provide For Me” introduce a more Neil Young type sound to the album as the music behind the vocals and catchy guitar riff take center stage to draw you into the song, as well as on “The World Can’t Take It Away,” where Delmore will have you tapping your feet along with the rhythm section as he brings a Tom Petty-esque style to the forefront. More often than not it is the lyric and vocals that act as the focal point of this collection of songs and Delmore masks his Americana style around a passionate delivery of them, and most proves that he isn’t afraid to sing about what he believes in on his debut effort. Taken from http://www.todayscountrymag.com/ryandelmorecd.htm