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Parademaker
Houston, United States
Indie / Alternative · Indie Folk
Parademaker is my Americana-soaked indie folk project with a rotating cast of musical friends. I learned guitar when I was 13 to join a church band playing three-chord praise songs but quickly cut ties for secular pursuits, performing pop-punk covers at middle school birthday parties and community centers. The first official Parademaker album was handed out in parking lots for free in 2005 and the next several records exist as loose CD-Rs and abandoned Myspace pages. It all felt very ephemeral. It wasn’t until COVID that Parademaker started making music sturdy enough for Spotify and other streaming services. The Waterline, Parademaker's fifth record in five years, asks what happens when we stop saving life for later. Its songs embrace the headlong rush of life and love, drawing on a wide stretch of American folk music, from John Prine to Sturgill Simpson. Recorded in a Houston garage studio, the album took shape layer by layer, with songs built up and stripped back until they found their sound.
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