Logan Ledger
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Chris Turpin/Courtesy of the artist
Logan Ledger
Chris Turpin/Courtesy of the artist
Rising up, my mother and father would make the drive from Chicago to my grandmother’s home in Waukon, Iowa (inhabitants: simply over 3,000) for go to. Whereas on the town, I distinctly keep in mind the one sounds we might hear in that tiny home: The one radio station performed all traditional nation, all day lengthy. From Hank Williams to Patsy Cline and Johnny Money to Merle Haggard, it was one thing uncommon and completely different for me, an individual who did not in any other case hear a lot nation.
Our visitor on this session, Logan Ledger, would match proper in with these musicians, virtually such as you’d taken a time machine again to these traditional recordings. Although he grew up within the Bay Space, his love for traditional nation is interwoven with new concepts that reverberate and resonate. Ledger’s self-titled debut was produced by T Bone Burnett, a man with a status for appreciating sounds of various eras. He was impressed. So had been we.
This session begins with a efficiency of “Imagining Raindrops,” recorded reside. Pay attention within the participant above.