Skinny Dyck

Resist the urge to laugh at Skinny Dyck – the playful alias of western Canadian songwriter Ryan Dyck (or don’t, that’s kind of the idea). The new album Easygoing sees Dyck moving a few steps further away from the country music environs he once wholly inhabited, but fear not, twang fans; the “distilled the spirit of wide-cut country” (Exclaim!) lives deep in the blood. Or, as Dyck puts it, “I still like to collect my mail at the old shack off the highway, but I no longer want to live there exclusively.”