Country & western singer/songwriter Tim Ryan was born in 1964. He spent his childhood on a ranch in St. Ignatius, Montana, not far from the Flathead Indian Reservation. Ryan's family is proof of the "great American melting pot." His bloodline is a diverse mixture of German, Flathead, French, Sioux, and French-Canadian.
Politics, in one form or another, seemed a family calling. Ryan's father was the town mayor, but he was also a musician. He was the one who started teaching Ryan about music when he was only four years old, eventually learning to play the drums, fiddle, and gu...