# Singer-Songwriter Spotlight Series, Vol. VI: Washington Musician Blake Cowan, aka, Wickerbird

- Link: https://indierockcafe.com/2013/02/singer-songwriter-spotlight-washington-state-musician-blake-cowan-aka-wickerbird-releases-singles-from-new-ep/
- Published: 2013-02-26T06:50:14-05:00
- Author: Max Hammer

[[After returning to **Mt. Rainier**, Washington from **New York City**, where he
earned a biology degree at Columbia University, dream-folk musician, singer-songwriter**
Blake Cowan** retreated to the wooded hills at the foot of Mt. Rainier to record
a new LP, and this week’s release of a new EP, in a borrowed trailer where “he commenced
a pivotal expedition into his own mortality and ephemerality” to form the musical
project, **Wickerbird**, which is “composed of mountainside reveries rendered forth
in bare guitar, cavernous harmonies, Gregorian drones and bird song.” The title 
track, “The Westering,” is an experimentation in acoustic, natural sounds, feedback
and chants, followed by the similarly sounding track, “Hollow.”

Cowan wrote that “Indie rock is a strangely inviting umbrella term that has, at 
least for me, managed to become one intrinsic to, and rapturously embracing of, 
all things eclectic, experimental and liberating in music. The term provides a haven
for the innovators and the quirky, expanding and transcending their musical mode
of expression, unyoked from a need to be defined or derivative.”

“The Westering” – **Wickerbird** from _The Westering_ – March 1st

“Hollow” – **Wickerbird** from _The Westering_

Listen to more [Wickerbird via Spotify](https://indierockcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/5JnB0pjUaCDOuRKRzuS5ti),
including this September 2012 debut. A new message on his Facebook page says that
his songs have had more than 60,000 plays on Spotify, which is completely believable.

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