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Ka<\/strong>rin McLaughlin: Erika, thanks for taking the time, I\u2019m super excited to be able to talk to you, I\u2019ve been listening to this album and it\u2019s struck a chord in me emotionally that I can\u2019t even explain.  Then I read your bio and the process that you went through writing and putting this album together and it\u2019s so interesting.  I\u2019m interested in this on a musical and personal level, so I\u2019m glad I get to ask you some questions about it.  So, can you kind of go over and give us a brief background of your musical career up until putting out this album and then we\u2019ll get into the album itself in depth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Erika Wennerstrom<\/strong>: Well, I started the project Heartless Bastards,<\/strong> which was initially a recording project back in 2003, maybe even 2002 and then I assembled a band in 2003.  The first album came out a year later on Fat Possum Records<\/strong> and the first album came out in 2005, so I\u2019ve been doing that ever since then.  The last album that we released before we went on a hiatus was in 2015, Restless Ones<\/em>, and I did a lot of great stuff in between, lot of great tours with artists, played Austin City Limits <\/strong>and Letterman<\/strong> and stuff like that, so I\u2019ve experienced a lot of great things.<\/p>\n

\"Erika<\/span><\/p>\n

Erika Wennerstrom – Photo Credit: Briana Purser<\/p>\n

KM: So as a part of Heartless Bastards, you guys put out, I think it\u2019s five albums right?  Or is it more than that.<\/strong><\/p>\n

EW:<\/strong> Uh-huh.<\/p>\n

KM: Now a lot of people tend to think that often times when an artist breaks off to do a solo project it\u2019s because they aren\u2019t getting what they need out of the band or the band isn\u2019t successful, but that doesn\u2019t seem to be the case here.  It seems like you just had an itch that needed to be scratched.<\/strong><\/p>\n

EW:<\/strong> Yeah, well it\u2019s a little complicated because I had a couple different lineups of the band.  It\u2019s kind of been my project, but I think that I\u2019ve played with the same band, the second lineup, for eight years and they were my team, they\u2019re on the last two albums, but they toured with me for the last three.  I just felt like they were my team at that point and when they wanted a hiatus, I thought, \u2018Well, what do I do now?\u2019  I got real inspired and wrote all these songs and then I thought, if they\u2019re on hiatus and wanting different things in their lives, I kind of felt like just getting a different band under Heartless Bastards didn\u2019t feel right or appropriate to me.  Even though it\u2019s my project and I do the songs, they\u2019re my team and it just didn\u2019t feel right, you know?  I was doing a lot of growth and self-exploration and it felt like a good time to stand on my own two feet with my own name and just give that a go.  There were also other challenges with that name, internationally touring, like you couldn\u2019t even say the name of the band on the radio in England and it doesn\u2019t always translate exactly the same.<\/p>\n

KM: That makes total sense.  You guys are based out of Austin and that city is really kind of becoming or has been, I guess for a while, a central location for so many young people and so much creativity and growth and music \u2013 obviously as you mentioned earlier,  they have Austin City Limits, which is a huge festival.  How much do you feel, if at all, Austin helped you guys grow as a band and\/or foster some creativity being around that scene, helping as a creative area and outlet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

EW:<\/strong> I\u2019m sure it did in some ways, it\u2019s just hard to say if a lot of similar growth or different opportunities would\u2019ve happened if I was still in Ohio.  I think as long as you, as an artist, are willing to tour, it really doesn\u2019t matter where you are in a lot of ways, as long as you take the time to get out and reach people with what you are doing.  I was still living in Ohio for my first two albums and had had a lot of growth with that too so I think that with any artist, as long as they keep releasing material and people are responding to the material, then they\u2019ll just keep growing.  Guided by Voices<\/strong> is from my hometown, The Breeders,<\/strong> and different folks.  I\u2019m sure that there were opportunities that came with being local to Austin that I got, but I guess it\u2019s tough to say in some ways.<\/p>\n

\"Erika<\/span><\/p>\n

Erika Wennerstrom – Sweet Unknown – Released March 23, 2018<\/p>\n

KM: This album, Sweet Unknown,<\/em> just looking at the titles of the tracks, you can tell that there\u2019s a lot of soul and soul-searching within it and then listening to it you can really tell.  Then I read the process that you went through to create this album and it was quite a journey.<\/strong><\/p>\n

EW:<\/strong> Yeah, I mean, I will be clear though, like when I went and did the ayahuasca retrea,t for instance, I didn\u2019t do it for the creative process, but it certainly ended up helping.  I\u2019ve always written from my life and I\u2019m just processing it.  I take all these experiences and then it inspires what I write.  I had a lot of stuff I was working on internally and that was a lot of the inspiration for my work.  I feel like I always kind of am on all my albums.  On the five Heartless Bastards records that I\u2019ve done, I\u2019ve been searching and searching and then I kind of came to the realization that I\u2019ve been somewhat searching for self-love and that\u2019s something takes constant work and it\u2019s a constant process.  You don\u2019t just reach a point where you just totally love yourself. (laughs)<\/p>\n

KM: If it were only that easy\u2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n

EW:<\/strong> Yeah, even just the realization of that.  It\u2019s like you can\u2019t fix an issue or a problem in your life when you\u2019re just not aware of it.  On Into the Open<\/em>, which is a song on the second album, I say \u201cHome is where I am\u201d and the idea with that song is the idea of home is with myself and in my own skin.  Being comfortable in just different situations in my life.  There are certain situations and certain people in my life that I can always be comfortable around but just the idea that I can be comfortable with myself when I\u2019m put in different situations and when change is brought into my life, you know?  The things in your life that you can\u2019t control.  I don\u2019t want to say that I\u2019ve fully found self-love because it takes constant work and reminding yourself to be kind to yourself.  I think I just didn\u2019t understand that.  I thought I always had self-love and I don\u2019t think that I actually did.<\/p>\n

KM: You briefly touched on your trip to the Amazon, and I also read that you spent a lot of time in Big Bend on a quest to learn more about yourself – I get the feeling that you did this alone, is that accurate?<\/strong><\/p>\n

EW:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n

KM: So is that something that you normally do, these solo trips? Or was this a special occasion with a mission as part of the journey?<\/strong><\/p>\n

EW:<\/strong>\u200b<\/strong> I just feel like when I went on my trip to the Amazon, it was before the release of Restless Ones, I felt like I had been kind of, unhappy in my life and the album was getting ready to come out and I wanted a little \u2013 with the gap of time that I had off \u2013 to do something, I don\u2019t\u2019 really know how to say it \u2013 absent of \u2018white culture\u2019 or much more commercialized culture.  I didn\u2019t feel like Europe was it, I wanted something different.  I was a little afraid of the idea of doing \u200bayahuasca, but I feel like you can\u2019t have the reward without the risk and that I should maybe take that risk.  I do a lot of research when I go anywhere, especially by myself, so if anyone is reading this and their interest is sparked, definitely do your research, just for your own piece of mind.  You read a lot of stuff where they put a negative and uneducated spin on things because of fear or the unknown but you really just have to dig deeper.  You really have to approach life with more love than fear and trust your gut.  There are always situations that you can put yourself in that can be dangerous, but you just have to be informed and smart about it and chances are that can be avoided.  I went to the Amazon in May of 2015 and then the band was touring and the album came out a month later and then I think in the beginning of 2016 in January, when the band was talking about taking a hiatus, that February I went to Big Bend in west Texas.  I think connecting with nature can really just give you a lot of perspective.<\/p>\n

KM: In this journey for self-discovery and self-exploration \u2013 without sounding too hippy-dippy, how much did nature have of an influence – I would expect positively – on your self-love quest?<\/strong><\/p>\n

EW:<\/strong> It was huge.  In all honesty, when I was there, I didn\u2019t know what I was looking for, it was just part of this process of figuring myself out.  I honestly think the whole world, and honestly \u2013 you used the term hippy-dippy and I use that term a lot too \u2013 I feel like it\u2019s just, everybody is searching for self-love, even if they don\u2019t realize it.  When you care about what anybody thinks, that, in a sense is the difference between what\u2019s ego and what you project to the world versus what is actually you and what you really want.  Like when you get a career or a good job, is that the idea of success that society tells you should have or is that what you really want?  I mean, there\u2019s people that have millions of dollars and people that can see that they are successful but they\u2019re still miserable.  Anthony Bourdain <\/strong>is a huge example of that.  I felt like everybody loved Anthony Bourdain.  He was so likable and he had such an interesting life.   I mean, he\u2019s talked to presidents and gone all over the world to these interesting places, and yet he killed himself.  I think perception of success and happiness is so different from actual success and happiness and that, especially in the day and age of social media where we present our lives in a specific manner, \u2013 I mean we get to curate what people see.  You really have to ask yourself that question.<\/p>\n

KM: Definitely.  It\u2019s a lot of struggle of what the internal definition of happiness is and what the external perception of what happiness should be or is.  Then it\u2019s – what do you actually do that makes you happy and if it\u2019s not something that is society\u2019s definition of successful, then will you ever be really happy?<\/strong><\/p>\n

EW:<\/strong> And the difference in figuring out what drives you to do what you do and is that based on the success that others see in it?  Like even with my art, I mean if I can get by creating and doing what I do, and also remaining true, writing what\u2019s real to me, then I’d be happy with that.  Maybe people will dig it and maybe they won\u2019t but just remaining true above all else.  And of course I do hope I get by financially doing what I love in my way, and I think that I will.  I think that whenever you put your heart in something, there\u2019s enough honesty there, that it\u2019ll work out in some way.  I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll have giant success or not, who knows?<\/p>\n

KM: I think other people are often happy enough with the fact that other people are impressed by them.  Like in the case with Anthony Bourdain, he was admired and a lot of people thought the world of him and thought he was successful and so cool, but that\u2019s not something that was important to him so that didn\u2019t take him out of the darkness he was in.  Moving on to a bit of a brighter topic though \u2013 you can definitely tell there\u2019s a lot of emotion and soul in the album and that went into making it, have you been able to play it live a lot yet?<\/strong><\/p>\n

EW:<\/strong> Yeah, definitely.<\/p>\n

KM: Do you find that some nights, more than others \u2013 I mean, it\u2019s an emotional process making the album – but do you find that certain nights and situations, in certain places \u200b with certain vibes, \u200bit’s difficult to go through that process over and over again?  Or do you find it cleansing to get it all out again?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Erika<\/span><\/p>\n

Erika Wennerstrom – Photo Credit: Briana Purser<\/p>\n

EW:<\/strong> I think that people can see that some parts of the album, there was some struggle there, but actually a lot of these are mantras and positive messages.  It\u2019s like they say – if you say positive things to yourself every day, eventually, they start to sink in, right?  I\u2019m singing a song every day that says \u2018be good to myself\u2019, just remember to be good to myself.  Or there\u2019s another line in it \u2018Hold tight, like always the winds change.\u2019  That\u2019s also a moment where sometimes you have a rough day, but there\u2019s always a new day.  It depends on what side of the bed you woke up on, my mom used to always say that, I\u2019m not sure if that\u2019s a saying. (laughs)<\/p>\n

KM: Oh yeah, and I used to always yell back, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t freggin matter what side of the bed I woke up on, it\u2019s a shit day!\u201d (laughs) So eventually my mom stopped using that saying.<\/strong><\/p>\n

EW: <\/strong>(laughs) I feel like a lot of the messages in these songs are positive and they are meant to be mantras.  When I sing them over and over again, they give me strength.  Every once in a while, I do feel emotional, and I cry when I sing.  I find that more when I\u2019m looking toward the past though, looking at what brought me to write the song.  I feel like there\u2019s more strength in this album than sadness.<\/p>\n

KM: I feel like this is an album that a lot of people would listen to and it would bring up a lot of feelings for them or help them get through rough times.  I also feel like they would want to let you know that you helped them with a struggle maybe.  Have you gotten a lot of fans that have come up to you and said \u2018Wow, this album really did something for me\u2019?<\/strong><\/p>\n

EW:<\/strong> I have actually.  I\u2019ve had a huge response from people that have reached out personally and said how it\u2019s helped them.  That\u2019s just another reminder that what I\u2019m doing is right for me. I was just as honest as I could be with myself on this record.  It has made me feel a strong sense of purpose, to know that this being honest with myself can help someone else.<\/p>\n

KM: Right.  I\u2019m sure that it also helps you feel more connected to fans and the process in general and vice versa.  Do you have a personal favorite song on this album?  Either it is your favorite to perform live or even just that the writing process helped you get some things out and settled?<\/strong><\/p>\n

EW:<\/strong> I think sometimes it really depends on the day.  I think that one of my favorites is Good to be Alone<\/em>.  There wasn\u2019t a real set structure on the song.  I had a basic structure – when we get up to this point we\u2019re going to change and this leads to this type of thing, but it left a lot of freedom.  It was a little frightening in a way, in the studio for us.  It\u2019s meant to change tempo in the middle of the song, but we had no metronome.  It\u2019s the whole idea of the song – it gradually speeds up and builds intensity.  Usually when you record in the studio, there\u2019s a metronome and you try to have it in perfect time so when you put layers on top of it, it\u2019s easier.  The whole idea was being in the moment, and I think the first two takes we did were kind of train wrecks and then we psyched ourselves out.  Then on the third take, we got it and it\u2019s totally live.  The only thing that was redone was my vocals because I had the guitar in the same booth and it\u2019s hard to get the mix.  The whole band take is totally live so it\u2019s just a special moment and it was a real challenging song and when we got done recording it, Patrick was like, \u201cThat was really special\u201d and we all nodded in agreement.<\/p>\n

KM: You\u2019re coming to D.C., where we are, and then some east coast stuff and then off to Europe.  Have you done overseas as a solo artist?<\/strong><\/p>\n

EW:<\/strong> I have but this will be the first time with a band.  I did a tour over there about six weeks ago \u2013 late May, early June.  That was a duo with Lauren on guitar and the band we were opening for Josh T. Pearson<\/strong>, that was the artist, had a band and they backed us up on a couple songs but this will be a full band set and that\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve done that there with this record.<\/p>\n

KM: Nice, that\u2019s exciting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

EW:<\/strong> Yeah, I\u2019m stoked!<\/p>\n

\"Erika<\/span><\/p>\n

Erika Wennerstrom (Photo Credit: Linda Beecroft)<\/p>\n

KM: So, last question \u2013 musical bucket list \u2013 is there anything on it?  A venue, collaboration, learning a new instrument or seeing a band you really like that you haven\u2019t seen yet?<\/strong><\/p>\n

EW:<\/strong> Well, there\u2019s a lot of bucket list things, but I was out in Colorado for Fourth of July and we were near Vail and we drove by Red Rocks<\/strong>\u200b.  I\u2019ve never played Red Rocks so I decided I\u2019m just going to will it.  I\u2019m going to play Red Rocks in the next two years.  Whether I\u2019m opening or headlining, whatever I\u2019m doing there, if I\u2019m at Red Rocks, I\u2019m probably doing pretty good<\/p>\n

KM: Red Rocks is awesome!  Have you ever gotten to see anyone there?<\/strong><\/p>\n

EW:<\/strong> No, I\u2019ve never been!  I\u2019ve done a lot of great tours and played a lot of comparable size venues but never Red Rocks.<\/p>\n

KM: Well, I\u2019ll help will it for you then.  I\u2019ve been a few times, like five – I\u2019ve got some friends out in Denver – and every single time we\u2019ve gotten shit weather \u2013 snow, rain, sleet, freezing rain, and it\u2019s still amazing every time.  Like a bunch of friends just went to Phish at The Gorge and that\u2019s another one.<\/strong><\/p>\n

EW:<\/strong> Yeah we\u2019ve played a festival out at The Gorge,<\/strong> it\u2019s amazing.<\/p>\n

KM: Well I\u2019ll put out some good juju for you on that (laughs).<\/strong><\/p>\n

EW:<\/strong> I appreciate that!<\/p>\n

KM: Looking forward to the show, I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve ever heard of or know anything about Gypsy Sally\u2019s but it\u2019s a great venue.<\/strong><\/p>\n

EW:<\/strong> Yeah, do you know the artist Joe Pug<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

KM: No, I\u2019m not familiar.<\/strong><\/p>\n

EW:<\/strong> Well, he\u2019s from D.C and I was talking to him and told him I was playing there and he said it\u2019s a great place, so I\u2019m excited.<\/p>\n

KM: Well, thanks again for the time and we\u2019ll see you August 1st<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

EW:<\/strong> Yeah, see you then!<\/p>\n

You can see Erika Wennerstrom performing on August 1 at Gypsy Sally’s. For additional tour dates please refer to Erika’s Tour Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 See the following to purchase tickets.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, August 1, 2018<\/p>\n

Doors: 7:00PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Show: 8:00PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u200b<\/p>\n

Gypsy Sally’s<\/p>\n

www.GypsySallys.com<\/a><\/p>\n

3401 Water Street NW<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Washington, DC 20005 <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u200b<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

$13 <\/strong>(Plus Fees) – In Advance<\/p>\n

$15 <\/strong>(Plus Fees) <\/strong> – Day of Performance<\/p>\n

For more information about Erika Wennerstrom please go to her website or Facebook Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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