Sera Cahoone

Country / Folk / Acoustic

Seattle, WA

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About

Daughter of a Rocky Mountain dynamite salesman, songwriter Sera Cahoone got her musical start on the drums at twelve years old. At twenty-one she left Colorado, in favor of Seattle, Washington’s gloomy skies and drummed for--among others--now-defunct indie favorites Carissa’s Wierd (sic.,) L.A. musician Patrick Park, and Subpop’s Band of Horses acclaimed release “Everything all the Time.” Despite being an accomplished guitar player and songwriter, Sera largely preferred to stay behind the drum kit until one particular tour across the United States with Park in 2006. On that tour, she found herself particular inspired by the landscape outside of the van window, and she wrote an album in her thoughts as they drove along blue highways and back roads of the expansive west and the plains.

When she returned home to Seattle, she fine-tuned those songs on her Martin guitar, and later recorded the album with help from fellow musician friends on a wide array of instruments from pedal steel to banjo.

Her self-titled, self-released debut album reflects her love of both old-school country music and modern low fi, and has been dubbed “the love child of Cat Power and Buck Owens.” After its release in February of 2006, Sera’s album was met with wide-spread critical acclaim, including being named one of the top ten albums of 2006 by NPR’s Stephen Thompson, and “one of my favorite albums of the year local or not” by KEXP DJ John Richards. Sera has currently set her drum sticks aside, is touring in support of her album, and working on a follow-up album to be released on Subpop sometime in the near-future.

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Music Nation, Jun 9, 2008:

Hi Sera,

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