Acoustic Conversations
“Leave Oregon. It’s the first song I play when I hit the stage in Nashville … but it really is OH-re-gon.”
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“When I was a kid, I think it was when I was in high school … I made this decision that I wanted to start focusing on really doing things, instead of just watching.”
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If there’s a gimmick to Jake Oken-Berg, it’s the run for Mayor.
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“For me, the musicians that I like are the ones that are somehow tapping into the universe.”
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“I’ve gotten really into Dollhouse,” says Lisa Forkish. “My whole family is obsessed with Joss Whedon.” And yet, somehow, her music stands in stark contrast this geek cred.
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“I think a lot of my earlier songs were all about relationships. Mostly that went wrong.”
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“I figured if I was going to write this kind of music, I was going to need a murder ballad.”
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Matt Vrba isn’t pure folk. He isn’t pure country. He certainly isn’t pure rock and roll. But somewhere in there, somewhere munged between the blues licks and jazz, up under the trucker cap and faded jeans, there’s a storyteller with grace of the greats and style enough to take a bar coaster in the eye.
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Sam Wegman has been playing the guitar since he was 12. So what, right?
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Tyler Stenson calls his music “Epic Folk”, a fusion of country, folk, and rock. It is at once a grab bag of honest storytelling and cutting lyricism that he deftly illustrates with his guitar. This week on the show, we talk with Tyler about growing up in a family of 10 siblings, we talk about a refined view of success as a working musician.
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