The Boxer With His Hands Down

Geoffrey 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.

Dalmatian Print Is In

Holiday 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.

Must Be Great To Live There

Geoffrey 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.

Boulder

BoulderBeat tells all of Boulder to come to the show, Denver delivers a generous listening room crowd at Fort Greene, Jacob Russo brings great songs, and Geoffrey Louis Koch closes his set with Gregory Alan Isakov’s “Master And A Hound.” Red Rocks Sunday. Colorado is delivering.

Denver

Geoffrey Louis Koch lands in Denver, sets up camp at Huckleberry Roasters on Pecos Street, inherits his dad’s flair for the dramatic, and lets the thoughts line up like jazz. Songs tomorrow night at Fort Greene with Jacob Russo. Free. Hot. Come on.

Colorado This Week

Geoffrey 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.

Next Record Vision & WDVX Blue Plate Special

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.

Beautiful Choreography

Geoffrey 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.

Blue Plate Special, Knoxville

Geoffrey 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.

At Noon On Thanksgiving

Geoffrey 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.