Keegan DeWitt on Daytrotter

If you haven’t spent any time over at our partner site, Daytrotter, I highly recommend killing a couple of hours wandering through the sessions.  Some of my favorites include The National, Brett Dennen and Andrew Bird but it is hard to go wrong.  Just some incredible music with a flavor that really is unique to Daytrotter.  Sean and the team do an amazing job bringing in both well known and up-and-coming artists and I have found so many performers on there that give me faith in the creative strength of music today.  The overall music business might be a mess, but these sessions are proof that artists are still putting out incredible stuff.

One of the elements I love on the site is the artists’ descriptions of their songs.  They are typically pretty open about their music and often very insightful.  For example, this is an excerpt taken from the fantastic session that went live today featuring Keegan DeWitt and an accompanying four piece string quartet.  He describes the track “Stormy Weather” as follows:

“Simply put, this song is an ode from one best friend to another. When I was traveling, I met a girl substantially younger than myself, and we became best friends, mainly because we both thought it wouldn’t be appropriate for us to be in love . I spent one of my favorites years in Los Angeles with her, hiking around the mountains, taking photos, reading WH Auden, driving up the coast in the middle of the night to go swimming. These are some of my very favorite memories. She would tell me stories about her childhood, her family, we’d stay up all night and stay at each others houses. It was one of the strangest and most unique friendships I’ve ever had. In the midst of all this, there was a real sense that we were in love, in a strange unmentionable way…”

Well worth checking out.  I had never heard of DeWitt before listening to this session but I’m certain I will go see him when he comes through town.