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- Isaac Friend
Isaac Friend started HoundHeart which formed in Richmond, Virginia in the Fall of 2017. Originally from Fort Pierce, Florida, Alli Walls moved to Richmond after several years of performing as a singer on cruise ships and sought a music community on the East Coast. Isaac is from Richmond and had been active in the music community for years, both as a drummer and songwriter. The two played duet gigs together while Isaac performed as the primary songwriter with with his band Lady Empire, where Alli often joined as a vocalist. At that time, Isaac was also drumming, writing, touring and recording with alt country band Big Mama Shakes (Holy Roller). After several months of practicing and performing around Richmond, Isaac and Alli decided to turn their project into a full time band. They moved to Denver, Colorado in the summer of 2018, where they've begun recording their debut E.P.
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45 min - Macy Warner
Macy Warner is a songwriter and artist from Colorado. Her writing is brutally vulnerable, and when combined with her sultry voice and depth of her Baritone Ukulele, creates a mesmerizing performance. Macy will be a freshman at CU Denver in the Fall of 2020, with hopes that she can continue to bring healing to listeners, through vulnerability, authenticity, and empathy.
Origin - Loveland, CO
Genres - Indie, Alternative, Singer/Songwriter
Years active - 2017-present
Label - Macy Warner Music / Plot Line Records
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Website - https://www.macywarnermusic.com/
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Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/1W1nQDjUGjWnfSMvyVDE5B
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35 min - Stop Motion
Formed in late 2016, Stop Motion is a hipster soul band out of Denver, Colorado that is always seeking new sounds. The eclectic tastes of songwriters Evan Lei and Faith Allen blur the lines between genres, combining the lyrical sincerity of folk music with the magnetic grooves of soul. Originally from Portland, Oregon, the duo met in the music scene in 2014. After two years, they brought their repertoire to Denver, where they recruited bassist José Gutiérrez, drummer K.R. Azad, and keyboardist Luke Maxson to form Stop Motion. Since then, they have performed at venues in and around the Denver area. Stop Motion is set to release their second EP, For You, on April 25th, 2019.
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53 min - Joel Elliot
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31 min - Shanea
Shanea is Denver based singer-songwriter who specializes in lyric-driven indie pop, accompanied by guitar or piano. Influenced by the folk music of their childhood and the rock music of their teens they pull from all artists from Tracy Chapman to Fugazi. They released their debut EP Cherry Stems in 2018 and recently released their second EP The Fifth House. You can find Shanea on all streaming platforms.
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37 min - Looking Back at 2019
Sit down with a glass of wine and listen as Caroline and Megan go over their top five releases from 2019.
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32 min - AJ Fullerton and Jake Friel
This is the last guest episode of season three of The Songwriter Diaries, can you believe it?! We can't! Thank you to YOU, the listener, for listening; believing in us, our guests and songwriting. Caroline and I (Megan) can't thank you enough for your support, here is to season three! Keep your ears and eyes peeled for season four.
In this episode, Caroline and Megan chat with AJ Fullerton, Fort Collins, CO native, and Jake Friel, harmonica player extraordinaire.
Raised as an only child in the mountains of rural Western Colorado, A.J. was brought up surrounded by numerous styles of music ranging from; Rock, Folk, Bluegrass, Roots, & Blues. His biggest musical influences ended up being found in his parents' collection of Classic Rock & Blues records. Playing solo, and in local bands throughout his mid-teens, by age 19 he was playing full-time supporting his rapidly developing solo career. His style of playing falls somewhere between the finger picking & slide of Country Roots music, and the groove-based uptempo sensibilities of Blues and Rock & Roll.
In the few short years of his professional career, A.J. has won a number of awards & accolades. In 2016 he was the winner of the Colorado Blues Society's "I.B.C Competition" , as well as winning the following Colorado Blues Society "Members Choice Awards":
- Young Performer (2016)
- Best Guitarist (2017)- Best Solo/Duo ( 2016, 2017, 2018)- Best Band (2017)- Best Male Vocals (2017)- Best Slide Guitar (,2016 2017, 2018)- Best Songwriter (2017)- Best Acoustic Act (2017, 2018)- Best Local Recording [“Kalamath”] (2017)Fullerton has played such events as; The International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN., The Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, The Clarksdale Juke Joint Festival, Bohemian Nights New West Fest, and The Durango Blues Train. Playing on average 200-250 shows each year, A.J. is often hailed as, “The Real Deal", and is frequently called one of the hardest working young musicians on the scene.
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34 min - Paul Dehaven
Paul DeHaven has been a fixture of the thriving Denver music scene for over 10 years, well-respected for his time crafting licks and tunes as a founding member of now-defunct folk darlings Paper Bird, high desert psych virtuosos Eye & the Arrow, and his latest collaboration with Sarah Anderson (of Paper Bird), Heavy Diamond Ring.
On Paul DeHaven’s debut LP, “King of Gold”, he adheres to the DIY aesthetic, recording and playing nearly every instrument himself. On it he explores loss, disappointment, vanity, and a longing to find purpose and connection in a modern world seemingly devoid of these. “It may be more of a generational thing — at least for a lot of the artistic types I know. You know, we’re in our 30s and still living hand-to-mouth and trying to get by — feeling just a little discouraged by the system.”
The song “No Gold” sums it up: “The secret to being a man/Is pretending that you have/something other than a fistful of sand...There is no gold out there”. All of the value lies within, and that story is told through rickety drum machines, commanding electric guitar riffs, and Paul’s ever more confident vocals.
Claire Nichols serves a sucker punch of pop prowess on a platter of biting lyricism and lush instrumentals. A flight of Nichols’ songs leaves a bold but bittersweet aftertaste; while “Aperol Spritz” is liquid confidence carbonated with spunk and seduction, “Kicking and Screaming” is a fireball shot, coaxing you toward a rage room of indie-pop angst. Her impending single, “Fleamarket Furniture” embodies Nichols’ storytelling capabilities, is cathartic, self-deprecating, and refreshingly candid.
Claire Nichols has paved herself an intersection of pop, somewhere between FLETCHER, Lorde, and Maisie Peters, but determinedly, entirely her own.
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37 min - Bailey Elora
Bailey Elora is a singer-songwriter, a Colorado native with small-town roots and a city soul. She has been writing and performing most of her life. From her first time in the studio at age 14 to release her first original song, “Must’ve of Been the Roses” 4 years later. She now produces her own monthly show at The Black Buzzard at Oskar Blues, “An Evening with Bailey Elora and Friends” in Denver, where she gives back to local nonprofit, Youth on Record.
She has built a solid reputation that has led her to perform at Denver’s finest venues, Levitt Pavilion, The Black Buzzard at Oskar Blues, Pepsi Center, Youth on Record, Civic Center Park for the 2018 Women’s March on Colorado, Illegal Pete’s South Broadway for The UMS’s Emerging Artist Stage and Colorado Gives Day, as well as at Greeley’s Moxi Theater where she opened for Colorado’s own alternative-rock band, Silver & Gold.
With a performance list that is unmatched by most artists her age, she is definitely on the path to success. Bailey Elora has had the honor of sharing the stage with many of Colorado’s artists such as Los Mocochetes, Lyle Divinsky of The Motet, Devon Jaime Hildebrandt of Silver & Gold, Michelle Rocqet of The Milk Blossoms, Joshua Trinidad and Felix Fast4ward.
Bailey Elora is a recipient of Youth on Record’s 2017 Real Rock Star Award, a Platinum Music Ambassador and now part of the YOR 2019 Fellowship Program.
You can find her performing with her band, Freddy Zamora (Guitar & Vocals), Geoff Orwiler (Bass & Producer), and Isaac Zamora (Drums & Vocals).
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25 min - Brianna Straut
Americana singer-songwriter Brianna Straut conveys the human condition through empathetic storytelling.
Born and raised in Texas, Brianna sings from her roots, incorporating lamentations of lost love and soaring moments of hanging on to the good times into her bittersweet folk tunes. She’s been a member of Denver-based Americana outfits such as Bison Bone and Tomahawk Fox. More recently, Brianna has branched out on her own as a singer-songwriter with a voice that is as proud as the Rocky Mountains she now calls home.
Her debut album, La Mano is the first in a series of three albums inspired by the hands of her community. Marquee Magazine has described it as “... the hard, chapped and cracked withered hands of modern working-class Americana — coupled, of course, with Straut’s beautiful, soaring voice.”
Brianna has opened for artists such as Lillie Mae, Son Volt and Israel Nash. She’s been compared to Lori McKenna in a recent write up by 303 Magazine in which they write, “[T]here is something about a girl and a guitar that can tug at those heartstrings. Straut pulls from her personal experiences to really give her songs a deep sense of emotion that listeners can empathize with regardless of their own personal experiences.”
Brianna has been touring the country promoting her new album and gaining experience to write into her next. Keep an eye out for the new music video for "Steady As She Goes" heard on the podcast!
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44 min
About The Songwriter Diaries
From the publisher's feed
The Songwriter Diaries is a podcast created by Caroline Stump and Megan Ellsworth that explores the songwriting process. Both Songwriting and Music Business majors at the University of Colorado…
Denver, these young women hope to shed a light on the creative and analytical aspects of the industry. By interviewing fellow songwriters, mentors, and industry professionals, Stump and Ellsworth showcase a wide array of valuable perspectives on pursuing a career in music. Through these discussions as well as many tangential laughs, mental health checks, strange noises, and questionable audio takes, two