Geoffrey 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 lands in Phoenix, gets ambushed by a forgotten memory at Sky Harbor baggage claim, finds Phoenix’s answer to Barista Parlor, and plays Fiddler’s Dream tomorrow at 8pm. No humidity. Wholly grateful.
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.
Read More“The Storm” wins Lyric Finalist in the International Songwriting Competition out of 18,000 entries. And then Geoffrey Louis Koch gets honest — about loneliness, dark nights, bulimia roaring back, and what it actually feels like to have a mental illness that makes you feel dead all over.
Read MoreGeoffrey Louis Koch goes to an open mic at Douglas Corner Cafe in Nashville — plays 29th out of 43, watches a woman from San Diego realize this isn’t a fairy tale, and comes home philosophically tangled about music, self-worth, pick up truck bro country, and how many more times you get up off the mat.
Read MoreOne month after recording it, Geoffrey Louis Koch’s Daytrotter session is live — and he is fully, unabashedly giddy about being illustrated. Walls lined with legends, a bloody Andrew WK poster next to Gregory Alan Isakov, and the overwhelming thought: who has sat on that couch? Everybody.
Read More2,087 miles, eight days after it ended — Geoffrey Louis Koch recaps the Follow The Voices Midwest tour with Ross Christopher. Empty rooms turned into the best shows he’s ever played, a Daytrotter session in the middle, and a St. Louis CD release show that birthed the record.
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