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That Kind of Love: An Interview with Pierce Pettis
What Kind of Love, Pierce Pettis's 2009 album. Pierce Pettis is one of today's most celebrated American songwriters. His songs, tinged with his Appalachian upbringing, have been called "profound," "beautifully delivered," "wry," "sensitive," and "an integral part of any singer/songwriter's collection." The Curator's Tom Wilkinson has followed Pettis's career for years, and he recently discussed songwriting, sto...
An Interview with Katie Herzig (Part 3)
This is the third in a three-part interview with singer/songwriter Katie Herzig. You can read parts one and two. There's a lot in "Apple Tree" about searching for love - I'm intrigued by some of those themes that come through on this album. "Hologram" talks about understanding how to get close to people, and it's quite pessimistic about it all, while at the same understanding that part of growing is pain an...
An Interview with Katie Herzig (Part 2)
This is the second in a three-part interview with singer/songwriter Katie Herzig. You can read part one here. During all this you were still living in Colorado. What prompted you to move to Nashville? I had taken trips out to Nashville to do some songwriting, and the band had recorded our last record there, so I had some history with the city and knew a handful of people. I had gotten to know some artists w...
An Interview with Katie Herzig (Part 1)
If you haven't heard Katie Herzig's music yet, you will soon. The August issue of Paste placed her on the "22 Up-and-Coming Artists You Ignore at Your Own Peril!", and called her music "brightly textured acoustic pop that's clever yet sincere, sunny but grounded". In describing her latest album, "Apple Tree", Billboard called it "an adventurous and playful album perfect for the triple A set", and said that her wo...
