Gregory Alan Isakov: Interview

Gregory Alan Isakov: Interview

Highway 89 - Season 6, Episode 35

  • Aug 3, 2016 6:00 am
  • 7:07 mins
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Gregory Alan Isakov is a singer/songwriter, touring artist, and occasional farmer that released a new CD: The Weatherman. Highway 89’s host, Steven Kapp Perry, recently spoke with him.  INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT:  SKP: I’m excited to be talking today with Gregory Alan Isakov who is on a break ‘from the road.’ And I think most of your life is currently touring, is it not? Except for a day or two stolen at home in Colorado?  GAI: Yeah, you know most of the winters that has been the schedule lately. Because I run a small farm just outside Boulder, Colorado. So I mostly work during the summers. We’ll do some festivals \[in the summer] but not very many.  SKP: You have a brand new album, it’s called Weatherman and there’s not really a song on the playlist called Weatherman. Is it a line or is it just an idea that you chose that for?  GAI: It sort of happened kind of organically. I was writing a series of short stories called The Weatherman and at the same time that I was making the recor...