It’s not every day, or every week, or even every month that I get a chance to see music really bring people together, and so these last couple weeks have really been something special; not only did I see disparate people and ideas converge over music, but it was my music that did it, and [...]

Last night I opened for Taken by Trees and El Perro del Mar at the Knitting Factory, and it was fun. I didn’t forget too many words, my fingerpicking wasn’t too clumsy and I could just hear myself above the chatter. The crowd seemed to like it. El Perro del Mar was hypnotic. This is [...]

During the blizzard last night, I was in the middle of recording a song for my new record. It’s called Bluebells–everything you hear is me so far, even the drums (which is a new adventure for me). You can hear/download an extremely rough mix below.

Bluebells by Will Stratton

Sometimes the best motivator for making music in an era when albums are decreasingly commercially viable is simply to provoke, to stretch yourself, to prove that everyone has you wrong. As I plan my third full-length record, I catch myself thinking this more often than ever before, and while sometimes I wince at my own [...]