Cahalen Morrison

Old-Timey and New-Fangled Fingerstyle Guitar, Lap Slide, Mandolin and Clawhammer Banjo

New Review from Leicester Bangs

Cahalen | April 12, 2010

Cahalen Morrison – Old-Timey & New-Fangled (Independent)

Plucking and strumming a multitude of unplugged strings, and singing his songs of everyday living and the new dustbowl experience, it’s safe to assume that Morrison’s primary influences aren’t the landfill singer-songwriters currently clogging up daytime radio with their cloying odes to perfect love [...]

New Review on “Call it Folk”

Cahalen | February 23, 2010

Most of us players should be humbled by Cahalen Morrison, the 24 year-old Seattle-based guitarist, singer, blues and old-timey interpreter, and multi-instrumentalist (six-string fingerstyle, claw-hammer banjo, mandolin, and lap slide guitar for starters). If not humbled, we are curious; how did the former New Mexico resident attain this kind of musical maturity at twenty-four? His [...]

Tour’s End / Record Release / Relocation

Cahalen | November 25, 2009

November 23, 2009 – Seattle, WA
Last night was the final show of my release tour for my new live record “Old-Timey & New-Fangled,” at the Green Frog Acoustic Tavern, up in Bellingham, WA, featuring my good friend and the amazing fiddler and harmony singer, Gretchen Caverly (of New Orleans). She was bold enough to brave [...]