Most of the musicians we've featured are working through matured careers. Today’s Local Music Monday will be different as this is the first time Debraun showcases a teenager.
Rhyan Sprague got her start in music, like many, in church. She has been writing music since the age of 8 and at 14 is fronting her own band All The Little Pieces. Sprague admits it is different playing with other people but says the most important factor to her moving forward, is the band.
“My age has never really been an issue and being in a band, it’s different obviously it’s a different situation, but it always worked and so I don’t think that if it hadn’t just kind of worked and our personalities hadn’t just meshed, I don’t think it would have gone very far.”
Sprague started All the Little Pieces in 2011 and the group has performed in town and regionally. The group has delveloped a sound around her original songs. When I asked her about the process of putting together the songs Sprague said that she’ll present what she has and then let the band go wild.
“I write the lyrics and I write the melody and then I put it into Garage Band as a demo and I take it to them and I kind of let them experiment with it and you know, do what they want, but I do take the song to them.”
All The Little Pieces have released an album called Broken Little Soul that was recorded at Sneak Attack Studios in Lexington. When recording music for some bands it is a challenge to recreate a live sound in the studio. For Sprague it was not so difficult as she says the band was already on the same page before they stepped foot in the studio.
“I think we had sort of achieved that in practice, we already kind of had what we wanted to get across, I think we already had that together, as far as kind of obsessing over getting it to sound right, I think it is very easy to do and get very perfectionistic, but I think overall we’re all happy with the way it turned out.”
Rhyan Sprague performs with All The Little Pieces. More information about Sprague and the band including the album Broken Little Soul can be found here.
