Geoffrey 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.
Read MoreGeoffrey Louis Koch dispatches from a frozen Panera in Iowa City — Super 8 regrets, Chicago traffic turning a new leaf, a Daytrotter anxiety attack, zombie survival strategy with Ross, and a grandmother standing on home plate at the Field of Dreams asking how to make her granddaughter famous.
Read MoreGeoffrey Louis Koch wakes up in a motel parking lot in Champaign to a death scowl at 6:30am, freezes in a Panera, critiques a $5.25 veggie burger, and philosophizes about the chess match of finding the perfect car sleeping spot before heading to Uncommon Ground in Chicago with Ross.
Read MoreFirst show of the first Follow The Voices tour — booking agent vanished, no one knew Geoffrey Louis Koch was playing, slept in the car anyway. Cue Cameron McGill on the stereo and the memory of 94 degrees at midnight in Tallahassee after another show no one saw.
Read MoreOne year to the day after walking into Ross Christopher’s SiloTREE studio to record Follow The Voices — Geoffrey Louis Koch closes a successful 34 day $6,000 Kickstarter campaign. No one does it alone.
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