KariFleskes

ARLINGTON, Tennessee
22 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter

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"There are some things that time can't forget; Like a strawberry sky, and your silhouette..."

BIOGRAPHY

I've been writing songs for fourteen years. I'm not so much a musician, but I can manage just enough on guitar, piano, and dulcimer to write the song. I'm a writer of all forms. In addition to songs and lyrics, I write articles, screenplays, and novels. I'm a published author. Currently, I live in Memphis, Tennessee working as the Audio/Video Engineer on the BubbleCam Crew at the Memphis Zoo.

LEVEL

aspiring

GENRES

Singer/Songwriter, Country, Folk

Contact

Administrative: Karissa Fleskes

INSTRUMENTS

acoustic guitar / vocals

DAY JOB

Video/Audio Engineer with the BubbleCam Crew

I AM INTERESTED IN

in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a record deal
in getting a publishing deal

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
with others
for myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,

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