Album Notes

“Ryan Beattie has a masterful voice that moves with such ease and grace.” –Discorder

If you ever find yourself staggering homeward as the birds of early morning start into their songs of the wee hours, after the hustle & bustle of the day to do life calms some, you may well hear Chet's Ryan Beattie moonlighting as the Himalayan Bear, as though beckoning in the distance. Endowed with renowned and phenomenal vocal abilities that lie somewhere in between Edith Piaf, Hank Williams & Roy Orbison, the sheer breadth between the warm lows & staggering highs is ample beauty to beckon you further. Moreover it may be the song, crafted of gifted, mature pop sensibilities, that is the thing.

Following it, you may well further find that you are in fact on the shores of the northern Hawaiian island of Kau'ai, with the tempting croon of the Himalayan Bear slightly closer now. Waking then after having been lulled into some beautiful deep slumber, you find that Ryan has abandoned you drunkenly for the luau or another take at the tiki bar. But the song lingers still, haunting you. For your travels, you are adorned with a lay by a beautiful woman who then welcomes you to Lo Lonesome Island.

"The music sounds like it’s playing in an upstairs room really loud as Beattie croons in the kitchen, while you sit in the living room crying in your beer: simultaneously spacey and close." - Vue Weekly