Strung Out Episode 209: THE PHILOSOPHY OF ART WITH JONAS FRIDDLE

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Singer-Songwriter Jonas Friddle is also a teacher at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago.   Teaching not only banjo, but songwriting, Friddle discusses his technique for writing his songs.   He also talks about the Chicago musical scene and his own ways of adjusting and surviving in today's frenetic musical business world.   His advice for aspiring musicians is well worth listening to.  An all-around grounded human being, Friddle is a pleasure to hear both playing his music and discussing his philosophy of art. 
His website is www.jonasfriddle.com.

Friddle was raised in the mountains of North Carolina and learned to play guitar on a yard sale Harmony six string. He was already writing songs by the time he got to Kentucky at age eighteen. There, the bluegrass pickin’ and old-time dances turned him on to the power and joy of traditional folk music.  He added a mandolin, fiddle and banjo to his arsenal and got a job slapping bass with the college bluegrass band. After serving his time in higher education, he spent a year traveling around the world playing music in pubs and living rooms. In 2007 Jonas landed in Chicago, started the Barehand Jugband, the Sleepy Lou Old-Time duo and began teaching at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Since then he has released multiple studio albums under his own name and with the folk supergroup “The Majority.” During that time his music has won multiple awards and been featured online at American Songwriter, Huffington Post and Paste.  

Recent years have brought Friddle’s focus back to songwriting and with the release of his latest album “The Last Place to Go” he puts out his best songs yet. A collection of sung stories backed by the sound of drums, fiddle, dobro, electric guitar, bass, organ and trumpet.  

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