Dylan LeBlanc says he's been a hot-headed fighter in the past; but his album 'Coyote' is a portrait of an artist finding his peace.
bounced between households — his mother’s in Shreveport, Louisiana, and his father’s in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. For LeBlanc, music was not only an escape hatch, it was a portal to transcend a young,. In many ways, LeBlanc is still running from that existence, and he chronicles his journey on his latest album, the superb. “I can remember when I listened to Neil Young for the first time. Everything faded away and I was just transported to this place. I felt like I could survive.
“You have to be a little bit crazy, a little bit dumb, and a lot tough to do this thing, because it does beat you up,” LeBlanc says. “Especially the way I’ve been doing it the last 14 years, one fan at a time.” From there, it was stints living in New Orleans and Lafayette, Louisiana, where LeBlanc was never too far from his French and Cajun roots. “Louisiana has a huge influence on me,” LeBlanc says. “There’s a dark, sinister energy there that lingers, and I’ve never felt that anywhere else.”
That displacement coupled with an eternal feeling of not seeming to fit in anywhere is something not only in LeBlanc’s blood and family tree, it’s translated itself into his music — melodic visions of drifting and contemplation, of loneliness and yearning, and of seeking stability in an unjust, chaotic world.“I saw a lot of dark stuff growing up. I grew up pretty hard down there,” LeBlanc says of Louisiana. “It was violent…that kind of thing I can’t go into.
When he was 15, LeBlanc dropped out of high school and started playing in bands. He was just a guitarist, but soon learned to sing harmony. That growing skillset would eventually parlay itself into LeBlanc fronting his own group.'SNL' Cold Open: Indicted Trump Hawks Bible Complete With Miranda RightsBeyonce Finds a New Freedom and Redefines Country Music on 'Cowboy Carter'Coyote
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