Videos by American Songwriter
HOMETOWN: Auckland, New Zealand
CURRENT LOCATION: Nashville, Tennessee
AMBITIONS: Have a sustainable career from my own original music, sprinkled with guitar work for other artists.
TURN-OFFS: An inflated sense of self worth. A sedentary lifestyle. Smoking cigs.
TURN-ONS: Passion for something in life. Doesn’t have to be what I’m passionate about, just a lust for some activity.
DREAM GIG: Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. I have concluded in recent months that the desert is my spiritual home. I’ve also got some friends that have played there and seen concert footage which looks amazing.
FAVORITE LYRIC: “When a cowboy says women, he means two different kinds/there’s the real kind and then there’s the kind in his mind/ the real kind is a mystery that he can’t understand / but the mind kind he knows like the palm of his hand.” – “Cowboy Song,” Dan Reeder
SONG I WISH I WROTE: “A Whiter Shade of Pale” – Procol Harum
5 PEOPLE I’D MOST LIKE TO HAVE DINNER WITH: Danielle Haim is my dream woman. I can’t think of five people, only her.️
MY FAVORITE CONCERT EXPERIENCE: Playing NPR Mountain Stage in July of last year. Tim O’Brien was hosting, the food was nice, the vibe was good, we had roadies and tech crew which was a nice change from our usual skeletal touring approach.
I WROTE THIS SONG BECAUSE… I’d had the main lyric idea for a while, it just popped into my head while driving to the coromandel one day. Then, I read Lolita by Nabokov. The story is so dark, but the man is kinda well intentioned. I just found it a great story, and it’s basic framework worked with the lyric I had.
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