Album Notes

"...a haunting voice, a heightened literary sensibility, and a passion for exploring the mysteries of his deep musical soul..."

-- David Ritz (Grammy Award-winning author and co-writer of Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing")

"Five O'Clock News" is a collection of beautiful tunes driven by Ryan Scott's incomparable and heartfelt voice. This is music that pushes and pulls down the middle of soul and jazz, back up through the unwinding strands of post-folk and rock, and lands, sometimes sweetly and softly and sometimes with a resounding smash, right in the center of your chest.

From the melancholy soft lullaby of the title track, to the head-nodding-fonk-meets-shimmering-lyricism of the lead single, "You, Girl", to the easy-rollin uptempo guitar jam, "You Might Change Your Mind", Ryan creates music that is, to quote one MySpace fan, "like a gingerbread cookie straight out of the oven with smooth creamy jams on top. His music makes your heart putter and your ears warm."

Legendary producer and engineer Rob Fraboni (Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton) joined the project to create a disc with a singular character all classic albums inevitably possess.