I was like, This changes everything.'
Of course I jumped at the chance: Hes such a seminal and important songwriter.
Im glad that happened, because the one I immediately thought of doing was Angeles.
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It wouldve just been Julien Bakers voice over an identical guitar part I wouldve done a cover.
I revere him so much that Im worried.
Your style is different from the style of that song.
And we did and I thought it was pretty I love some sad piano.
I ended up liking it and keeping it that way.
All of the sound from whats going on is muted and its just Needle in the Hay.
[laughs]Either/Oris my favorite record of his.
It has all these songs that are just straightforward, [with] that muted acoustic guitar.
I was in college and I was undergoing a lot of change at the time.
I was away from all of family, all of my friends.
I knew one person on campus when I moved there.
I spent a lot of time alone.
I would get the custodial staff to let me into the music building.
How do you balance school and music?I became a non-person.
I had a job and I was going to school and touring.
Thats how it was the three years I was in school.
I just ate, slept, and breathed school and music.
Im going to have to be three states away at a show.
Its the passion for music that makes you do all the things it takes to get there.
Last fall, when things started to kind of pick up, I was still in on-campus courses.
That was difficult because it involved weekend red-eye flights to get to shows.
Before I was on red-eye flights, it was Greyhound buses.
Ive been in online courses touring full time and its an acclimation process.
Do you have more songs in the works?Definitely.
Ive always got a folder full of demos and voice memos and drafts of lyrics on my phone.
Ive been trying to play new songs [at concerts], just to abate my own anxiety.
Im anxious to stay working on new projects.
