Kasey Anderson

“I love Kasey Anderson’s writing – he’s a writer’s writer, which I often say about songwriters who tend to write as though they are building a narrative arc for a book within each song.” — Hanif Abdurraqib

Whether you know it or not, you’ve heard Kasey Anderson‘s songs before. Maybe “Don’t Look Back” showed up on a playlist you were sent after a breakup. Maybe you heard “Like Teenage Gravity” on Counting Crows’ album Underwater Sunshine and assumed the plaintive, plainspoken lyricism was the work of Adam Duritz, when in fact Anderson had written the song for his 2009 album Nowhere Nights. Or maybe you were one of the few million people who took up Anderson’s song “The Dangerous Ones” — first released in 2018 under the name Hawks and Doves, on the album From a White Hotel — as a rallying cry in the summer of 2020 as the country careened towards the presidential election. It could be that you saw Kasey Anderson open for Jason Isbell, or Counting Crows, or Steve Earle, or any number of other household name artists who’ve sung Anderson’s praises over the years. The point is, you’ve likely heard Kasey Anderson’s songs before and, as he readies his final album, To the Places We Lived, and sets out on one last farewell run of shows, it’s probably time you listened to Kasey Anderson again.