Surviving The Music Industry

Birds, mustaches, loneliness, and vulnerability versus ambiguity in songs with Ivory Layne and Matt Lorenz of The Suitcase Junket. Matt was rounding up his promotional tour for his latest record Mean Dog, Trampoline and we talked exhaustion and avoiding awkward interactions. Then Ivory Layne sits down to share the ideas of her songwriting and her journey.    Matt Lorenz's follow-up to 2017’s Pile Driver, Mean Dog, Trampoline takes its title from a lyric in “Scattered Notes From A First Time Home Buyers Workshop,” a brightly tumbling folk romp built on ramshackle rhythms and jeweled guitar tones. I caught Matt before his Nashville set and midway through his tour. It seemed like Matt was living through one of the themes of his record of exhaustion, so we touched on it. Then what does that mean for an artist to overcome it or sit and stew on it for artist development? You can follow The Suitcase Junket @suitcasejunket and .   Layne started songwriting at age six but didn't take serious interest until turning fou