Tracky-by-Track: Jesse Walton Opens the Book on His Album, ‘Pages’

Generally speaking, musicians are storytellers and storytellers are musicians. But sometimes, one leans more to one side than the other. That’s certainly the case with Jesse Walton, a young musician who is more storyteller than songwriter on his new album Pages, just released on May 14th. Inspired heavily by the be all end all of folk storytellers, Bob Dylan, as well as artists like Nick Drake and The War On Drugs, Walton has crafted a record inspired by his deep love of storyteller’s folk music. Emotional in nature, the new record sorts through his grief after a couple of his closest friends passed away during his teenage years. Motivated by these difficult times, Walton’s lyrics are deep, captivating, and at times heart-wrenching. Pages has been a work in progress now for a decade, a set...

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