William Tyler is a Los Angeles via Nashville composer and guitarist. Blending styles ranging from modern classical to neo folk through instrumental soundscapes, he brings together a type of cosmic Americana that invokes Ry Cooder, Bill Frisell, Windham Hill, space age folk, and avant garde textures. His latest full length "Goes West" is out on Merge Records.

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