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Ryan O'Reilly
Ryan O'Reilly came up in Portland, Maine, where he grew up listening to folk and blues. In the early 1990s, he put together a band with John Doe and Mary...
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Ryan O'Reilly came up in Portland, Maine, where he grew up listening to folk and blues. In the early 1990s, he put together a band with John Doe and Mary Jane, playing local clubs and festivals with a sound that mixed folk, rock, and country. Their debut album 'From the Heart' came out in 1995, and it included the song 'I Never Told Her.' That track caught on with listeners, a ballad about unrequited love with a quiet melody and O'Reilly's understated vocal delivery. After the band broke up, he stepped back from music.
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