Every week, the State of Sound podcast welcomes an artist from our monthly concert series into the studio to go deep on one of their songs. For more info on the live show, including how to get tickets, visit the event page.
Kat Wodtke describes the music that emanates from Long Mama as blistering “with the heart and grit of someone who has lost hard, loved harder and licked her burns until they stung then silvered.”
In a drafty attic just west of the Milwaukee River they grew up on, Wodtke can be found raking through notebooks in search of a salve: words, stories and sounds to temper the Dumpster fires we never mean to light. In this episode, they talk with me about the inspiration behind Long Mama’s song “Poor Pretender.”
Use the player at the top of the page — or find us on your podcast app of choice — to hear our conversation and a taste of Long Mama’s set from State of Sound’s August concert showcase. While you listen, snap up the buy-one-get-one ticket offer we just dropped for October’s State of Sound featuring Fuzzysurf, Caley Conway, Hello Face and Cozy Danger.
