Levi Foster

I love that you said that because it's always fascinating to me, right? Being a New Englander, right? Our country music scene or that country music umbrella has...

gotten pretty big and pretty, you know, people care more now up here, right?

Yeah.

And I always find it interesting where, you know, when country music artists or artists in that umbrella come from places that aren't

Tennessee or Alabama or Georgia,

you know, you know, the stereotypical places.

Sure.

Yeah.

So how growing up for you, like, how does this style of music become what you do?

Well, I mean, I grew up around a lot of bluegrass.

It's really big in the area that I grew up in.

So, I mean, just just being steeped in that kind of traditional music really helped shape what I wanted to do just because I was brought up in it.

But I mean, I don't really subscribe to the point of you have to be from a certain area to do country music.

Think about Merle Haggard.

He was from California.

That whole Bakersfield thing.

When you think of country music, most people don't think of California, but there was a big movement that came out of California with country music.

I think country music is just...

You have to be vulnerable with your lyrics and you have to either tell a story or it has to be something real and authentic.

It's not just regurgitated pop stuff.

That's what people... deem country music as.

It's not like if you're singing with a southern accent, because you could say absolutely nothing in a southern accent and be like, well, this is country music, but it's really

not.

That's what I

think.

I love that you said that because it's always fascinating to me, right? Being a New Englander, right? Our country music scene or that country music umbrella has...

gotten pretty big and pretty, you know, people care more now up here, right?

Yeah.

And I always find it interesting where, you know, when country music artists or artists in that umbrella come from places that aren't

Tennessee or Alabama or Georgia,

you know, you know, the stereotypical places.

Sure.

Yeah.

So how growing up for you, like, how does this style of music become what you do?

Well, I mean, I grew up around a lot of bluegrass.

It's really big in the area that I grew up in.

So, I mean, just just being steeped in that kind of traditional music really helped shape what I wanted to do just because I was brought up in it.

But I mean, I don't really subscribe to the point of you have to be from a certain area to do country music.

Think about Merle Haggard.

He was from California.

That whole Bakersfield thing.

When you think of country music, most people don't think of California, but there was a big movement that came out of California with country music.

I think country music is just...

You have to be vulnerable with your lyrics and you have to either tell a story or it has to be something real and authentic.

It's not just regurgitated pop stuff.

That's what people... deem country music as.

It's not like if you're singing with a southern accent, because you could say absolutely nothing in a southern accent and be like, well, this is country music, but it's really

not.

That's what I

think.