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Basic Folk 07 – Dawn Landes
Powered by RedCircle Dawn Landes is a woman who knows her way around a recording studio AND a rowboat. Before becoming a fulltime performer/songwriter Dawn worked as a sound engineer for many years. After studying for a bit at NYU she left school to pursue an internship at Phillip Glass’ studio. It was at Phillip…
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Powered by RedCircle On Basic Folk this week I sit down with Mark Erelli, a singer-songwriter out of the New England area. Growing up Erelli did a little of everything: tennis, musicals, science, and then… he found rock music. This was all thanks to his high school science teacher who would play bootleg Grateful Dead…
Read MoreBasic Folk 05 – Kaia Kater
Powered by RedCircle I feel very grateful to have Kaia Kater on Basic Folk! Her willingness to talk so openly about the whiteness of folk music had me in awe. I learned a lot about her experience in the world as a biracial person. This is one not to miss. You might say Grenadian-Canadian, clawhammer…
Read MoreBasic Folk 04 – Nora Jane Struthers
Powered by RedCircle Nora Jane Struthers started in bluegrass, but has leaned towards Americana and rock and roll in the past decade. She’s also got an incredible life story that includes overcoming dyslexia, infertility and falling in love with her bandmate. She plays and records as Nora Jane Struthers and The Party Line. Originally a…
Read MoreBasic Folk 03 – Anna Tivel
Powered by RedCircle Anna Tivel is my guest this week. Tivel is known for her character songs that portray the beauty and pain in everyday individuals. Born in a small farming town in Skagit Valley, Washington, Anna came to songwriting as a recent college grad waiting tables in downtown Portland. Her first song, she reports,…
Read MoreBasic Folk 02 – Suitcase Junket
Powered by RedCircle In this week’s episode, I sit down (and basically LOL the entire time) with one-man-band Matt Lorenz of The Suitcase Junket. Originally from a small town in rural Vermont, Lorenz’s first instrument was a free, second-hand piano the family had gotten from a posting on a bulletin board. As his musical career…
Read MoreBasic Folk 01 – Ana Egge
Powered by RedCircle In the inaugural episode of Basic Folk (!), I talk with Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Ana Egge. Dubbed the “Nina Simone of Folk Music,” Ana and I sit down to discuss her early influences growing up on a commune in rural New Mexico, crafting her own guitar at the age of 15 and writing…
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