Six years in Nashville in a flash — Geoffrey Louis Koch traces the highlights through photos and quick stories. Promo stickers above urinals, ice-covered Knoxville, panic attacks at the Field of Dreams, matching outfits with Gregory Alan Isakov, and looking like a snack at the Mercy Lounge.
Read MoreGeoffrey Louis Koch closes out 2016 — Election Night as tsunami, a bruising personal year, studio demos, packed rooms and desolate ones, and a Christmas Eve candlelit service that opened the faucet.
Read MoreHoliday dispatches from the Nashville studio — demos in progress, a Les Paul Epiphone overdue for a set up, a sold out November show, Dalmatian print equipment bags, and guided meditations on YouTube totally slaying Geoffrey Louis Koch.
Read MoreGeoffrey Louis Koch hits Boulder and Denver — a sold out No Name Bar show, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats at Red Rocks, Caroline Rose, Shovels and Rope, Molly Brown’s house, and a warm conversation with Nathaniel Rateliff at the after party.
Read MoreGeoffrey Louis Koch heads to Colorado this week — Fort Greene in Denver on Friday with Jacob Russo, No Name Bar in Boulder Saturday. Coffee going through him, mountain of laundry ahead, and open to restaurant recommendations from anyone who knows the territory.
Read MoreGeoffrey Louis Koch previews his next record’s sonic vision — Boys For Pele meets Elliott Smith, Bon Iver, Gregory Alan Isakov, Jimmy Eat World’s Clarity, Springsteen’s Nebraska, and Nathaniel Rateliff. Also: WDVX Blue Plate Special tomorrow, Tori Amos rediscovered, and a public apology to artists he’s fanboyed.
Read MoreGeoffrey Louis Koch announces WDVX Blue Plate Special in Knoxville, wonders about Gregory Alan Isakov’s live Colorado Symphony record, and can’t stop thinking about what Ben Howard’s “I Forget Where We Were” almost did — but didn’t do — and why that’s enough.
Read MoreGeoffrey Louis Koch reflects on November 2015 speeding up and slowing down — Arlo Guthrie on Thanksgiving, songs finding their identity, the red in every pink, beauty in an apartment parking lot, and running up and down the street like George Bailey.
Read MoreGeoffrey Louis Koch covers Nashville’s songwriter rounds, Cardinal heartbreak, Bills tailgating at the Titans game, and Bon Iver’s “Re: Stacks” — a song he’s never seen but knows exactly what it looks like. Signals sent out to everyone, available to anyone tapping in.
Read MoreGeoffrey Louis Koch picks up his Martin from Glaser’s, heads to the Ryman for Of Monsters and Men, and reflects on songwriting with less fear and less fog — and the dangerous labor of going into very dark places to find the right lines, and coming back out.
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