Chance Emerson

One Liner: Spicy Flannel Rock!

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but like an indie pop

Home:  Concord, NH (via Taiwan/Hong Kong)

Poster Position: Late Addition
Day: Friday 
Weekend One Only.

Ladybird Stage at 2:00

Thoughts:  For the first time that I can recall, when I searched for this fella, the top biographical result is an article by his high school - St. Paul's School in Concord, NH.  Class of '18.  It notes that he is/was a third-year computer science and archeology student at Brown University.  A fascinating dichotomy between the past and the future with those majors.  He also calls his music "spicy flannel rock."  I'd say it sounds like what an American Idol contestant makes after coming in tenth (and no, I don't think he was on the show).  He split his childhood between Taipei and Hong Kong before moving to the U.S. for high school (as a "Third Former," in the description from his school, although I dunno what that means and don't care enough to look it up).

Two albums - 2020's The Raspberry Men, 2023's Ginkgo - a handful of EPs, and an appearance on that Bebe Stockwell album that I just listened to earlier today.  Another bio claims that he is a descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, which is pretty slick.  But probably more important to him right this minute, he won second place in the John Lennon Songwriter's Award from BMI in 2023.  I was trying to find other winners that I recognized, but no such luck without serious digging.  Top track is "House We Share" from the 2023 album, with 2.6 million streams.

His description of the song was that this song is about how attentive and wonderful at tending house he was when his relationship started, and then how that slipped as the relationship melted.  I guess I missed the part where he stopped making three course meals and chopping firewood.

His second-most streamed is from his first release, and EP from 2017 called The Indigo Tapes.  "The Wandering Mind" has 1.7 million streams.

[extreme Italian voice] Thatsa spicy flannel!  It is fine.  I don't dislike it by any means, it just feels to me like a nice little space filler that was added to the poster after the bookers realized that they needed to fill some more time.  I am always hoping for a big time addition here at the last minute, but usually it will be more like this fella.  I'm probably good.