My earliest and greatest influences, musical and otherwise, were my parents. I remember using my pinky finger to wind the tape back into my father's Bob Dylan Infidels cassette and listening to Jokerman and Sweetheart Like You over and over. I remember singing falsetto backup to Motown on the oldies station during a trip to Boston with my mother. Then discoveries like The Velvet Underground and Randy Newman. Springsteen, who didn't have a bad song on his first four albums. Neil Young. Tom Waits, when Bone Machine was the only CD I had in my car during a four hour traffic jam heading home from college. REM, Built to Spill, Pavement (thanks Gus), Yo La Tengo (thanks Gus), Taj Mahal, Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin' Wolf, Van Morrison, Bill Callahan, Michael Kiwanuka. All of them telling stories that are raw and real and relevant.

My goal is to write, play, and perform music that is sincere and meaningful and interesting and challenging. Music that is sad and happy and human.

My music certainly holds pieces of the influences above, but I hope it is also not quite like anything that you have heard before and nothing that you can quite describe.

Music is how I understand and experience the world, much like science for some, or philosophy or law or history or religion for others. I am grateful to have it so prominent in my life and there is little I love more than creating, playing, and sharing it with people I care about.

Thanks for listening.

Christo Sedgewick     
Chicago, 2024