Nick Langston - Musician

Nick Langston is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has spent a questionable number of years trying to get closer to the kind of songs that made him pick up a guitar in the first place. Along the way he learned lead & rhythm guitar, piano, Hammond organ, jazz harmony, and improvisation—mostly by saying yes first and figuring it out later.

He writes and performs somewhere between classic and indie rock, and the long tradition of songs that sound simple until you try to play them in front of people. His influences include Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, and Van Morrison, along with guitar-driven storytellers and stylists like Stephen Stills, Eric Clapton, and Bruce Cockburn.

He sings lead and backup vocals, usually depending on who forgot the words most recently. Years of playing live have taught him that musicianship is important, but so is knowing how to recover gracefully when a bridge gets repeated twice or the tempo drifts slightly into “interpretive.”

At this point, he continues to do it for the same reason as everyone else: because every once in a while, a song lands the way you intend, and all the rest of it suddenly makes sense.