Hayden Pedigo: Live performance and interview - Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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When Hayden Pedigo plays the acoustic guitar, he doesn't sing. He doesn't have a huge backing band. He writes sprawling, beautiful songs around the guitar. It's kind of breathtaking.

Hayden was born and raised in Amarillo, Texas. He even ran for City Council there once. Hayden has an affinity for taking his promotional photos while wearing corpse paint makeup - the kind of stuff you see on Death Metal lead singers.

He just put out a new record called I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away. Hayden stopped by the studio to talk about how he creates his songs and even brought his guitar by the studio for a live performance.

00:00 - Intro
00:33 - I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away Performance
04:30 - backstory to "I'll Be Waving. . ."
05:36 - Little House on the Prairie
06:07 - Growing up in Amarillo, Texas
06:36 - Truckstop pastor father
07:30 - Parishioners
07:58 - Learning music and guitar
10:11 - Houndstooth Performance
14:06 - John Fahey influence
15:23 - Technical guitarists
16:55 - Telling a story through music
18:22 - Leaving Amarillo
21:21 - Silence in music
24:40 - Carthage Performance
29:33 - Corpse paint
32:12 - Crossover audience
33:50 - Outro


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