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Live In-Studio: Seth Freeman

  

Thursday February 27, 2014 Afternoon Music Show host Loren Dixon talked with Alaskan favorite Seth Freeman. The guitarist is in Alaska for more than a month and shared with Loren his connection to the 49th State.  Seth also shared some great live acoustic music!

Seth Freeman Bio

Some people discover music, others are born into it.  Jensen Seth Sebastian Freeman spent time in both the city and the mountains of Arkansas, in the heart of the South in a large, and very musical, family.  When you hear Seth Freeman play guitar, you quickly realize these are not the same old licks, and he is one of those rare, soulful talents who has not only mastered his instrument, he has mastered the craft of making music.

As a third generation guitarist, he has literally heard music since before his birth, and was taught to play music first hand, playing guitar at the age 4, in large circles at family reunions, stepping on stage at the tender age of 5.  This natural talent not only grew up surrounded by live, mostly acoustic music, he grew up in a rich musical crossroads between the major American musical centers of Nashville, New Orleans, Memphis, Austin, Oklahoma, Dallas, Tulsa, St. Louis and Kansas City.  The first leg of his journey has already taken him around the world including Europe, Canada, Alaska and in most of the United States.
At 23, finally opening for names like Jonny Lang, Wes Jeans, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Damon Fowler and Devon Allman, he was on track to make his mark on the larger music world, when his life took a turn. He was in a serious auto accident in 2008 that left him with a broken back and Dr.’s saying he wasn’t ever going to walk or play again.  After a miraculous surgery and full year of recovery in Alaska, he now has a 6” titanium rod holding his spine together and he walks, talks, writes, lives, breathes and plays music on a daily basis again, with a passion unlike any other.  He loves to be challenged musically and he has risen to meet this physical challenge as well, with full force.
 
Seth Freeman is not in a hurry to impress, nor does he play too loud.  His guitar playing is roots based and yet it is fresh and original and very passionate.  He plays all kind of styles specializing in driving blues and sweet tender ballads, but also including jazz fusion, haunting dobro, singer/songwriter, old gospel hymns, stone-cold country, roots rock, Ozark Mountain bluegrass, from nasty slide guitar to tasty Hawaiian lap steel.  He proudly lists his Father and Grandfathers as influences, and they pushed him to be better, along with a host of others along the way on guitar, lap steel, slide, bottleneck & bar slide styles and Weissenborn.
 

*January 24 - Benefit for Challenge Alaska - Girdwood, Alaska
* January 25 - The Silvertip - Girdwood, Alaska (w/ Melissa Mitchell)

* January 31 - Fairview Inn - Talkeetna, Alaska (solo acoustic)
* February 1 - Fairview Inn - Talkeetna, Alaska (solo acoustic)
* February 5 - A.J.'s - Homer, Alaska (acoustic)

* February 6 - A.J.'s - Homer, Alaska (acoustic)
* February 7 - The Alibi - Homer, Alaska
* February 8 - The Alibi - Homer, Alaska
* February 14 - The Rendezvous - Kodiak, Alaska (solo acoustic)
* February 15 - The Rendezvous - Kodiak, Alaska (solo acoustic)
*  February 19 - Tony's - Kodiak, Alaska
* February 21 - The Rendezvous - Kodiak, Alaska
* February 22 - The Rendezvous - Kodiak, Alaska
* February 25 - A.J.'s - Homer, Alaska (acoustic)
* February 27 - The Taproot - Anchorage, Alaska
* February 28 - Brown Bear Saloon - Anchorage, Alaska (w/ Melissa Mitchell)
* March 1 - The Silvertip - Girdwood, Alaska
* March 2 - The Taproot - Anchorage, Alaska (hosting jam)

 

Loren’s been on the Radio in Anchorage for 30 years. Since the mid 80's he's worked with Anchorage radio stations including KWHL, KFQD, KKLV, and KMXS. His passion for Music and the 'Triple-A' radio format began in the early 90’s which led to him to help establish the format for KNBA when the station signed on in 1996. When not on the radio hosting a music show and interviewing local and national music acts, he may be on a long road trip or you’ll find him hanging out at his log cabin in the quiet, but bear filled hillside valley of his hometown Anchorage.