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Today on That Tech Pod, Laura, Kevin, and Gabi speak with singer-songwriter Katie Boeck and producer Dustin Ransom live in Nashville, Tennessee about making music with technology in the age of A.I.

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Katie Boeck\\u2019s voice is earthy and cosmic. Her muses, modern and ancient. Her power, higher and worldly. Boeck doesn\\u2019t just revel in these contradictions\\u2014she weaves them together on her forthcoming album, Calico due April 28, 2023. Calico captures the arc of maturing relationships\\u2014from na\\xefvet\\xe9 and illusion to self-love and sovereignty. It\\u2019s an album about modern love and the longing that still tugs beneath the promise of our hyper-connected culture. On the title track Boeck sings, \\u201cI\\u2019m in every direction / too many modes of connection.\\u201d And on the album's opener, Over Again, she ponders time and the gift of owning your history. \\u201cWould you do it over again/ lose ourselves along the path of good intentions\\u201d. These are songs about life taking unexpected courses and stories of love just out-
of-reach.

Boeck summons a pantheon of guides\\u2014wise women both mythic and real. Like Eve, Boeck likes to reimagine herself returning to Eden, whole. And Like Eurydice, Boeck followed one her musical guides, Joni Mitchell, out of the underworld. Recently divorced, newly single-parenting, Boeck was struggling to find her voice. So she looked to Joni\\u2019s oracular songs to help renew her own creative spark. She learned Joni\\u2019s watershed record Blue in its entirety and toured the show for a year. Living inside Joni\\u2019s cadences and signature melismas led Boeck back to her own sonic soil. She used songwriting\\u2019s ancient alchemy to find wisdom in her heartache and spiritual injuries. She also found kinship with co-producer Dustin Ransom (also recently divorced) who wound up co-writing and co-producing the album.\\xa0

Boeck\\u2019s career has been wildly varied. After graduating UCLA's Theater program, she spent her early twenties playing every Westside LA dive bar and coffeehouse, living on Lookout Mountain and soaking in that Laurel Canyon sound. She landed a spot in an all-women Bollywood band that took her on a surreal six-month \\u201cEat, Pray, Love-esque\\u201d tour of India, playing everything from farm weddings to the
Indian Navy\\u2019s annual gala. Afterwards, Boeck found herself back in LA with reverse culture shock, her '91 Chevy Caprice Classic and a heartbreak from a recent Spanish expat romance. She wove these experiences into the songs that appear on her debut EP, Speaking of You.

Boeck then moved to New York to star in Duncan Sheik\\u2019s musical, Spring Awakening, where she shared the lead role of Wendla with deaf actress Sandra Mae Frank. The play\\u2019s success occasioned appearances on Late Night with Seth Meyers, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and a 2016 Tony nomination for Best Revival of a Musical. Boeck\\u2019s rendition of \\u201cAve Maria\\u201d was featured on HBO\\u2019s critically-acclaimed television series \\u201cThe Newsroom\\u201d and her cover of Ace of Base\\u2019s \\u201cThe Sign\\u201d was recently featured on Netflix\\u2019s \\u201cLove Island\\u201d. She has played Electric Forest Festival, Mile of Music, the Cutting Room, City Winery and Carnegie Hall. Boeck now lives in Nashville with her five-year-old son. \\u201cBoeck sings with a plaintive passion.\\u201d \\u2013 NEW YORK TIMES