Live and Havin’ Fun, recorded at The Mint in Los Angeles, is Deb Ryder’s first live album. This stellar singer-songwriter and arranger once again exhibits her innovative and sensational talent.
The album was produced with her husband/bass player Ric W. Ryder and features familiar names Johnny Lee Schell, Tony Braunagel, Jim Pugh, and Ric W. Ryder, plus Tex Nakamura, Alan Maggini, Lon Price, and Paul Litteral — as well as special guests Albert Lee, Joe Sublett, Joey Delgado, Artur Menezes and Big Llou Johnson.
With music that swings along well suited to the words, the single “Fun Never Hurt No One” proves itself to be a good time.
Born in Chicago Illinois, she began singing at the age of five joining her Dad, crooner Al Swanson on stage at several popular venues and churches in the area. Debs musical career began in her early teens when her mother moved the family to California and along with her stepfather opened the renowned Rock and Blues club the Topanga Corral. There, she opened for and performed with such legends as Etta James, Big Joe Turner, Taj Mahal and Canned Heat, all regulars at the club. These artists mentored Ryder, and it was then that her vision of herself as a singer, songwriter and performer began to take shape.
Ryder has enjoyed a very successful professional career performing on numerous national television commercials, motion pictures, and Las Vegas musicals, and had a long run as a session artist in L.A. Her first record Might Just Get Lucky, recorded and produced by Deb and husband, bassist Ric Ryder was released in 2014 on her label BEJEB RECORDS, and put her on the blues radar! She then teamed up with Grammy award winning Producer / drummer Tony Braunagel, and released four chart-topping records.
