Born in Woodland, California, and having spent portions of his childhood in the Pacific Northwest and the mid-Atlantic, singer/songwriter and guitarist Will Stratton debuted with his first full-length album, What the Night Said, in 2007, at only 18. No Wonder followed in 2009 and New Vanguard Blues arrived one year later. The magnificent Post-Empire, Will Stratton’s fourth full-length record, was recorded in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and came out in 2012, released by French label Talitres Records, focussing, again, on Stratton’s insistent fingerstyle guitar playing, descended as much from British folk icons like Bert Jansch and Davy Graham as from American avant-gardists like John Fahey and Robbie Basho, but with a newfound urgency to his lyrics and his singing and an increasing dissonance in his harmonic sensibility. This was the turning point of his musical careeer, and, after another great and introspective record, Gray Lodge Wisdom, out in 2014, again on Talitres, Stratton debuted for Bella Union label in 2017 with Rosewood Almanac. Stratton’s seventh album, The Changing Wilderness, out in 2021, saw him shift focus from inward-looking to outward-examining, an approach he stuck with for the first-person character sketches that populated 2025’s Points of Origin, released on Ruination Records (U.S.) and Bella Union (in the rest of the world) in March 2025.
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