Conner Youngblood Cheyenne CD

Nashville resident Conner Youngblood crafts melodies through a wide range of obscure instrumental arrangements. Often centred around a specific place of natural landscape or human connection his songs embody delicate, nuanced moments in nature and the introspection of these moments.

Where many musicians pick their instrument of choice and let it be their primary songwriting vessel, Youngblood finds different instruments allow him to tap into varied parts of his songwriting brain. His debut album Cheyenne features no less than 30 different instruments – a harp, a bass clarinet, a tabla, etc – all of which are played by Youngblood on a record featuring no guests. Instead it’s simply him and an engineer he’s known and worked with since he first started releasing music back in high school. Though he’ll be building up a band to play live, he has before now mimicked the sounds of certain instruments on stage and supported people such as Janelle Monae, SOHN and Angus & Julia Stone.