Artist: Willow Parker

Featured song: Wild

Singer-songwriter Willow Parker grew up in Bend and started performing at local open mic nights about five years ago. Shes still a frequent open mic performer, and can be regularly heard at the Astro Lounges open mic nights on Mondays and M&J Taverns Wednesday open mic. This song, Wild, is one of her originals.

Q: Whats the story behind this song how was it written, recorded, etc.?

A: (The process) varies from song to song. Sometimes Ill come up with themes first, sometimes I really like poetry, so sometimes Ill have the lyrics first. Most of my originals are written in standard tuning, and I was getting a little bored, so I decided to branch out a little bit. The first one I did was open E (tuning). I loved it, I did a few riffs, I thought I was gonna write maybe a couple different songs with it, but they ended up flowing all together, and so the music part came first and then I put lyrics to it.

Q: Whats the story inside this song whats it about?

A: Well, its pretty self-explanatory when you hear it. Basically (its) just about a relationship, love and lust and feeling confident in a relationship with affirmation and attention.

Brian McElhiney, The Bulletin

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