Since the genre was pioneered, singer-songwriters have built uniquely microscopic universes from the sheer force of experience. Engaging in this practice requires being a sharer, knower, observer, and translator of world to word, then page to song. Singer-songwriters specifically wield these roles with ferocity, with a growing dedication to truth as generations pass…
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Artists have forever been enraptured by trees. They divulge the poeticism of roots and find human semblance in how woods breathe. With one hand in the past, and one searching forward, Vancouver-based singer-songwriter Haley Blais engages this poetic canon uniquely in her track “Beginners Guide to Birdwatching” off her 2023 record “Wisecrack.”
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What is it about God that pushes us away from ourselves? How does art heal these wounds? The answer is subjective and ambiguous, but Lucy Dacus and Adia Victoria have found it through songwriting. Home Video, Dacus’ 2021 release, and A Southern Gothic, Adia Victoria’s 2021 release, are works of art that reclaim the self by questioning God. Both artists dug into their past by using old journals, exploring themes of community, relationships, and adolescence in order to birth these albums.
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