Ryan Culwell

Texas is a place where talented songwriters seem as common as crabgrass, but Ryan Culwell is one Lone Star tunesmith who had to move away from his home state before he could write and record his breakthrough album. After issuing his debut, Heroes on the Radio, independently in 2006, Culwell moved to Nashville, where he refined his gritty heartland rock sound into something more austere and reflective of his Panhandle roots. His 2015 sophomore effort, Flatlands, and 2018 follow-up The Last American drew widespread critical acclaim, as did 2022's transformative Run Like a Bull.