Love Noise - Alyssa Keiser, Devon Sants, Clayton Ryan

The Pilot. The Start. The First Step

This is how it all started. I, Bubba Startz, found three of my favorite songs, from my favorite artists, and introduced my friend and co host to them live on the air.

It is a magical thing that has begun here and we thank you for listening

Alyssa Keiser  "Seatbelt"

Seatbelt is a song about holding onto a relationship that already died and won’t be fixed (car that won’t drive). It’s a song that i really got to pour my self-destructing feelings into and be super vulnerable with.

Catch Alyssa all over the Yankton, Mitchell, Sioux Falls areas this summer and working closely with DBS Entertainment, The Scene and Startz and Endz.

Devon Sants    "I'm Not a Hero" (featuring Tyler Bills, Chris Grave, and Tom Frear)

A lot of the people I had in the video are good friends. most had already honed their craft better, and were further in their music careers than I was. So to see the kind of support from my peers was amazing. Very humbling and fun experience. Devon Sants on collaborating with Chris Graves, Tom Frear, Tyler Bills Devon Sants is a singer-songwriter with influences ranging from bands like KALEO, Amigo the Devil, Zachary Kibbee, and Hozier, to The Strumbellas, The Lumineers and Caamp. With a love for blues and soul, and a history of punk and folk, a fusion of genres comes bleeding through his songs. He is currently working on his debut album called "Wicked Road".

Clayton Ryan    "Better Man"

Better Man was a song I was sitting on for awhile. Like any Rapid City resident that’s ever made that overnight drive to Denver International Airport, I was about swerving off the road by 4:00 AM, somewhere near the Nebraska state line. The one thing keeping me awake was wondering how my life had led to that moment and reflecting over the highs and the lows. I sat on it for about seven months and after leaving LA after heartbreak and financial-break, I rehashed the lyrics a bit and put out the song to help others going through a significant change. The song was engineered by Gage Schmitt and mixed and mastered by Patrick Cunningham! I played all the instruments except drums and piano, which were done by Patrick.

It took Clayton Ryan almost 24 years to find his hometown, his inspiration, and his voice. This was not by choice, but rather a complicated and impulsive pathway through the nation; the soul-singing Americana artist has dipped his pen into almost every conceivable aspect of the music industry from Los Angeles to Nashville, from jazz and classical music to hip hop and rock n’ roll, from writing commercial music to performing for crowds in honkey tonks across the plains. 

The Iowa-raised songwriter found his home in 2019 amongst the swaying pines and jagged cliffs of South Dakota’s Black Hills. His first successes in the industry came as a bassist and songwriter for Brandon Jones, opening for acts like Koe Wetzel, Jo Dee Messina, Flatland Cavalry, and Randy Houser. In the summer of 2022, his song "The Watchman of Spokane,” written for the duo Cottonwood Boys, was featured in American Songwriter Magazine, Americana Music Show, B Sides & Badlands, and South Dakota Public Broadcasting. This epic ballad - written about a true 1908 murder in a South Dakota ghost town- was praised by both Grammy Award-Winning songwriter Marcus Hummon and William Fitzsimmons for its "compelling" and "emotional" songwriting, citing similarities to Gordon Lightfoot and Jimmy Webb.

Most recently, his songs, “No Return to Sender,” “Song of Iowa,” and “Locked Up, Locked Down: Live from the Woodshop Sessions” have all been featured by GemsOnVHS, Sugar Lodge Records, and B Sides & Badlands. He has shared the stage or recorded with Canaan Cox, Liam St John, Cristina Vane, Tori Miller, Jalan Crossland, Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal, Jason Dea West, and Joshua Quimby, and appeared at Miner Music Festival, Big Turn Music Fest, Iowa State Fair, Des Moines Art Festival, Wild Bill Days, Sturgis Musicfest, Wild West Songwriter’s Festival, and National Western Stock Show.  

With a knack for quickly writing music on a daily basis, Clayton has worked regularly with Universal Music Production and Noise Candy Music in Los Angeles, working with producer Patrick Cunningham. The duo’s production highlights include songs in NASCAR, Fox Sports, CW's "Walker," the Tennis Channel, and Hallmark. The two released the powerful soul anthem "Better Man" in September of 2023.

Currently residing in Minneapolis, Clayton Ryan began his first solo LP in January of 2024. GHOST TOWN, an Americana concept album, is produced by Multi-Platinum selling artist Michael Shynes, engineereed and played by Isaac Levy and Bennett Vee at Rockhouse Productions in St. Joseph. The ensemble has worked with artists including Ryan Lewis, Ed Sheeran, Cory Wong, Yam Haus, and Brian Setzer. The record is set to release in the summer of 2024.