Nashville, Tennessee
25 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter

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"A young man from a small town with a very large imagination..."

LEVEL

semi-pro

GENRES

Singer/Songwriter, Alternative Country, Folk

Contact

Administrative: michaelwestoncasto@gmail.com

P.R.O.

BMI

INSTRUMENTS

acoustic guitar

INFLUENCES

John Prine Martin Sexton Woody Guthrie John Steinbeck Appalachia The Oilfield Distance Females Homemade Wine Front Porches Kitchen Tables Campfires Jeep Cherokees Regular Cherokees The Cracker Barrel

I WRITE:

When I'm in the mood

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AWARDS & ACCOLADES

Honorable Mention in American Songwriter Lyric Contests for "Ripple", "Not-So-Precious Metal", and "That's What I'm Here For". Regional Finalist (Midwest) in 2008 Newsong Contest. Honorable Mention in 2008 Great American Song Contest ("The Road to Love"). Winner of the Midwest region of the 2009 Newsong Contest. Winner of the 2009 Ozark Folk Festival Songwriting Contest. 4th place in American Songwriter Lyric Contest for "Crawfish, Oil, and Sunshine". 1st place in American Songwriter Lyric Contest for "More Than Stars".

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Q&A: Bright Eyes

After a brief stint as a solo artist, Conor Oberst has revived Bright Eyes to release The People’s Key, an album that deals with the nature of time, spirituality, and human existence. Also, it’s Rastafarian friendly.

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Jessica Lea Mayfield: Look At Miss Ohio

“Things are starting to get weird.”

Jessica Lea Mayfield, whose Nonesuch Records debut Tell Me is in stores now, is on the phone from her home in Ohio and we’re having a good laugh over her recent success. It’s beer o’clock on both ends of the phone, the last interview in a long week of talking to complete strangers for the two of us.

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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....