RYMAN HAS NOTHING TO “LOSE” ON NEW SINGLE

Ryman Wooten has nothing to lose. It’s a perspective he’s embodied his whole life – or at least as long as he’s operated as RYMAN – whether he realizes it or not.

Starting the project at just fifteen years old, Wooten had nothing to lose. Walking through the halls of high school as a growing artist with a digital footprint for all to see is a uniquely modern circumstance. He decided to keep his head held high, and see if he could inch his way toward victory.

“ I mean being a 15 year old, and being an artist, you have to market yourself like a business. Like look at me, posting a bunch of obnoxious videos!” recalled Ryman. “It was hard to balance with schoolwork, especially at first, but then my parents got to a point where they were like, ‘Okay, this is obviously what you're supposed to be doing, and you're already doing it, so just pass.’”

“Lose” was made by RYMAN for RYMAN. Just him and a group of his closest friends,  Jack Shrefferman and Eden Joel, detailed, and perfectly produced, this simmering acoustic ballad. A letter to himself in which he realizes that he can’t change himself to fit the ideals of a person he’s not in a formal relationship with.

“ I'm really confident about the things that I'm writing. I'm like, okay, I'm not having to get other people's opinion to think that this is cool,” explained Wooten proudly. “‘Lose’ especially, like, it's the most fun I've had making music, like, ever.”

“There's certain things that I can't put into words and say out loud, but I can put it into a song,” explained Wooten on his songwriting process. “For a while I wasn't really writing songs about specific situations to me, I was just writing whatever was coming out whenever we were writing. I feel like nowadays I'm writing to like very specific situations in my life and it's become so therapeutic for me.”

In the new year Ryman's not trying to be someone else, part of a team he’s not meant to be on. He’s had enough of that game. Luckily for him, he thinks he’s found his footing, and taken the right first few steps, including a spot on Red Light Management’s roster.

“ Out of nowhere like all these people that I listen to acknowledging what I'm doing, like bebadoobie added it to her favorites, and Role Model commented,” said Wooten. “Based on like, just the TikTok alone and the other opportunities and doors that have opened because of that.”

Soaking in the last few reminders of a southern snow storm, Ryman Wooten sat outside in the Nashville cold as we spoke. A light, bright, warm exterior, with a colder, darker feeling wrapped around it – reminiscent of Wooten’s own project.

Bubbling with anticipation, and shaking (a little) from the cold, Wooten is ready to show the world – especially everyone that has been following him since hte beginning – everything that RYMAN has in store for this year.

With new music on the horizon, and endless possibilities yet to be discovered, Ryman Wooten truly has nothing to lose.