Zachary Cale Tickets

ZACHARY CALE HAS BEEN A FIXTURE OF THE UNDERGROUND MUSIC SCENE IN NYC FOR OVER 17 YEARS. OFTEN CITED AS A SONGWRITER’S SONGWRITER, HIS ECLECTIC MUSICAL INFLUENCES HAVE GUIDED HIS OWN UNIQUE STYLE OF SONGWRITING. WHETHER ALONE WITH AN ACOUSTIC GUITAR IN AN INTIMATE ROOM OR ON A FESTIVAL STAGE WITH A FULL BAND, THE SONG ITSELF HAS ALWAYS BEEN HIS MAGNETIC NORTH. AN EXPRESSIVE SINGER AND MASTERFUL GUITARIST CALE HAS HONED HIS CRAFT OVER YEARS OF TOURING AND RECORDING.

BORN IN ST. TAMMANY PARISH, LOUISIANA AND LATER RAISED BOTH IN JAKARTA, INDONESIA AND WASHINGTON STATE, CALE PICKED UP THE GUITAR AT AGE 12 AND STARTED WRITING ORIGINAL MATERIAL IN HIS EARLY TEENS. IN HIS COLLEGE YEARS HE CUT HIS TEETH IN THE OLYMPIA MUSIC SCENE OF THE LATE 90’S FORMING BANDS THAT EXPLORED BOTH PUNK AND FOLK SOUNDS. UPON RELOCATING TO NYC IN THE EARLY 2000S, THE LABEL NEW WORLD OF SOUNDS RELEASED HIS DEBUT ALBUM, OUTLANDER SESSIONS: AN ALBUM CONSISTING OF INTIMATE STORY SONGS, NUANCED GUITAR-PICKING AND AN ACHING VOCAL DELIVERY. CALE’S FOUNDATIONS WERE SET. AS A DEDICATED PERFORMER, IN THE AUGHTS HE PLAYED IN NUMEROUS NYC BARS AND VENUES SHARING STAGES WITH OTHER THEN BURGEONING SONGWRITERS LIKE JOHN MCCAULEY, SHARON VAN ETTEN, AND KURT VILE.

THE ALBUMS THAT FOLLOWED: WALKING PAPERS AND NOISE OF WELCOME, EXPANDED ON HIS FOUNDATIONS BY USING ALTERNATE TUNINGS, COMPLEX FINGER-STYLE GUITAR TECHNIQUES, AND HIGHLY POETIC NARRATIVE SONG STRUCTURES. BY 2011 CALE WAS TOURING NATIONALLY AND OVERSEAS. BLUE RIDER WAS RELEASED IN 2013 TO MUCH ACCLAIM. THE ALBUM ENCAPSULATED HIS INTIMATE SOLO PERFORMANCE STYLE WHILE THE FOLLOW-UPS, DUSKLAND AND FALSE SPRING, MOVE INTO FULLER BAND ARRANGEMENTS, SHOWCASING THE SONGWRITER’S SKILL AS A BAND LEADER, AND HIS ABILITY TO MELD ROOTS INFLUENCES WITH A CLASSIC AMERICAN ROCK SENSIBILITIES.