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The music of singer-songwriter Vikesh Kapoor has always defied logic. Here\u2019s a 20-something artist\u2014born in small town Pennsylvania to immigrants from India\u2014who seems more inspired by Pete Seeger, John Jacob Niles and Woody Guthrie that any popular music from the last few\xa0decades. On today\u2019s podcast, we talk to Kapoor about his upbringing, his influences and his favorite guitars.\xa0

Kapoor has a new single out, entitled \u201cDown by the River.\u201d\xa0\u201cIt was one of the first songs that I wrote and I never had it recorded in a way that I liked,\u201d he says. Kapoor wrote it while inspired by\xa0Seeger\u2019s \u201cDink\u2019s Song\u201d in essentially a day, right before his 23rd birthday.\xa0

We also talk about guitars, including the\xa0\u201870s Gibson J-50 Deluxe that\xa0Kapoor found in a local shop, almost by fate.\xa0It served as the primary songwriting instrument behind The Ballad of Willy Robbins [Kapoor\u2019s 2013 album] and "Down by the River."

This episode of the Fretboard Journal Podcast is brought to you by Retrofret Vintage Guitars and Dying Breed Music. Kapoor\u2019s new recording is available at all the usual digital music outlets and can also be purchased as a flexi-single from Mama Bird Recording Co.

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