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Ryan Walker and Brian Kent make up the songwriting team and primary musicians for the Washington DC band, The Beanstalk Library. The two were joined by Mike Fellenbaum, John Rapoza, and Gabe Fry to release their debut album, America At Night, in August of 2007.

The Beanstalk Library sounds like the Beatles and The Band had a bratty baby in the polluted Atlantic Ocean that washed up on the Carolina coast and hitchhiked to Washington, DC.

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America At Night (2007)

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Reviews
For fans of Big Star and Teenage Fanclub . . . Songs like "Fake It" and "Elephantitis" burst out of the speakers, bright and jangly guitars at the forefront, supported by piano, horns and cascading backing vocals. "America at Night" is rooted more in classic rock than '90's alt-rock and that helps give the songs a timeless feel -- well-written, well-performed . . . extremely tuneful, and immaculately produced.

-David Malitz (The Washington Post)
A package of tightly packaged songs . . . draws upon Dylan and The Band but with the modern sensibility of Wilco . . . not the meandering experimentation of many freshman efforts.

-DC Magazine
The one-two punch of "Elephantitis", a rushing, gushing power-popper, and "Fake It", with its requisite jangle and harmonies, was the perfect antidote to midsummer malaise. Worth the wait . . . a refreshingly straightforward band.

-Graham Hough-Cornwell (DCist.com)
One of the strongest local records of the year and a great live band.

-Instrumental Analysis