Kristen Merritt was born in Detroit and spend her younger years moving around the south before presiding in Williamsburg.  We learn about her life here in New York and learning how to write songs on her own after playing and writing with a band. 

Songs From a Room

Episode 17 - Kristen Merritt

Nik Westman joins the podcast via video conference to share his songs with us while isolating during the Covid pandemic. He talks about his projects while in quarantine. Releasing The Corona Tapes a compilation project of independent artists as well as his own EP Nimble Minds. 

Episode 30 - Nik Westman

Julie talks about being home schooled in Lancaster Pa, her time living on a commune, and other experiences that inspired her music. 

Episode 29 - Julie Kucks

Stephen Artemis Jr tells us about growing up in rural New York and how visiting the country side inspires his music. We also talk about recording his albums with his own independent recording label. 

Episode 28 - Stephen Artemis Jr

Josh Savage was in New York City just in time to share with us his journeys from Berlin to Mexico and perform music inspired by his adventures.

Episode 27 - Josh Savage

 Lorraine Leckie joins us on the podcasts. She talks about her start in music after years as a successful make up artists and how she starts the Greenpoint Songwriter exchange, a weekly meet up for songwriters to workshop their new material in an open community oriented atmosphere. 

Episode 26 - Lorraine Leckie

Doo Crowder has performed music in Denver, LA, and across the country. Getting by on music and teaching music to children in a detention center. He shares his personal stories that inspire the music for his upcoming albums as well as inspirations for his more recent work. 

Episode 25 - Doo Crowder

Benji Mark is a singer/songwriter and musical therapist currently living in New Paltz. He shares with us his experience teaching music to children and the spiritual and romantic journeys that inspired his music. 

Episode 24 - Benji Marx

We sit down and talk to Hoagie about the songs he gathered for his up coming album Other Folks. A rock opera about growth and learning to work with others. 

Episode 23 - Hoagie

Morton Millen shares his music with us and talks about growing up in England and living in the East Village then shares us a touching song about losing his horse. 

Episode 22 - Morton Millen

We talk to Peter Siegmann aka The Lowliest One. He tells us how his journey that brought him into becoming a singer songwriter and using a pseudonym to separate the music from the man.   

Episode 21 - Peter Siegmann (The Lowliest One)

Ben Pagano sits down and shows  shares with us the songs working toward his next album currently in the works. 

Episode 20 - Ben Pagano

This episode features Rebecca Tilles from her apartment in the upper east side. She share's with us some of her new music, writing her dual citizenship between Sweden and America. 

Episode 19 - Rebecca Tilles

Ben Schapiro returns to the podcast and tells us about meditation and how it's helped him grow as a songwriter. 

Episode 18 - The Return of Ben Schapiro

We sit down with California native and New York resident Jack Adams. He talks a little about what led him into music and gearing up for his album release show at the Gutter. 

Episode 16 - Jack Adams

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