Multi-talented Adam Klein talks to Paige Roberts Friday @ 8pm EST

Singer/songwriter and troubadour Adam Klein’s music touches on Americana, rustic country folk, folk-rock, and West African Mande music. He performs in a variety of settings– either solo, duo, with his band, Adam Klein & The Wild Fires,

For Low Flyin’ Planes, his seventh album, Klein teamed up once again with his longtime producer and engineer Bronson Tew at Dial Back Sound in Water Valley, Mississippi. 

One of an individual’s greatest challenges may be just to remain true to oneself. To stay alert, energized, disciplined, driven, and inspired. To do the hard, intentional work of constant growth, learning, and seeking, and to harness the resulting ambitions and direction into purposeful action.

The chorus of Lead Guitar finds Klein performing solo in a coffee shop longing for the full band presentation of his songs but the verses recall two memorable events in Klein’s extensive musical travels–

 Too Cool for School is a straight-forward pop-rock tune that gives a nod to one of Klein’s favorite local Athens spots, Hendershot’s Coffee.

Spent, the soft, closing number, ends with a stanza filled with references to songs of the late great Athens songwriter Vic Chesnutt.  Spent expresses a certain weariness from the hard-go of life as a striving musician:  As he sings in Spent, there’s no way to squelch this fire burning within.

Klein is the founder of upstart independent label Cowboy Angel Music and co-founder of the Athens Americana Music Festival in Athens, Georgia, held annually from 2007- 2012.