American Songwriter Connor Leimer Self-Releases Second Album POSTCARD To Digital Stores Worldwide Today


Connor writes by “blurring the boundaries” between genres and allows his work to “take [him] wherever it needs to go,” following an extremely authentic process of songwriting. -Will Rowe-Parr, The Music Ninja

     

American Songwriter Connor Leimer Self-Releases Second Album “Postcard” To Digital Stores Worldwide Today


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Connor writes by “blurring the boundaries” between genres and allows his work to “take [him] wherever it needs to go,” following an extremely authentic process of songwriting.   -Will Rowe-Parr, The Music Ninja

Watch Connor Perform Songs from “Postcard” Live on KJHK-FM  here

Watch Connor Discussing His Dorm Room Tour here

Upcoming Performances

10/04 - Boston, MA - Berklee College of Music

160 Massachusetts Ave. Boston, MA 02115 (16th Floor Lounge) 

10/05 - Boston, MA - Boston College

Walsh 316 Residence Hall

140 Commonwealth Ave. Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 

10/06 - Philadelphia, PA - UPenn

3130 Brentwood Drive Doylestown, PA 18902

10/08 - Pittsburgh, PA - University of Pittsburgh

3414 Bates St. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 

10/09 - Springfield, OH - Wittenberg University

10/11 - Chicago, IL  - Loyola University

6447 N. Wayne Ave. Chicago, IL 60660 

10/14 - St. Louis, MO  - St. Louis University

3853 Forest Park Ave. Apt. 106 St. Louis, MO 63108 

10/15 - Fayetteville, AR - KXUA - FM - University of Arkansas Student Radio

A665 Arkansas Union Fayetteville, AR 72701 

10/15 - Fayetteville, AR - University of Arkansas

588 N. Wordsworth Ln. Fayetteville, AR 72704 

10/16 - Kansas City, MO - WDAF-TV Fox 4 Morning Show

3030 Summit Kansas City, MO 64108 

10/16 - Lawrence, KS - University of Kansas

938 Missouri St. Lawrence, KS 66044

For Immediate Release - Nashville, TN - Black Panda PR - October 2, 2015 - Connor Leimer celebrates his second album release “Postcard” on the road in the Big Apple today.  He’s reworking the concept of the American house concert tradition for a college crowd.  At the same time that some of his peers are navigating beer bongs and dorms for the first time, he’s pursuing a different education all together.
While the rest of his high school classmates crammed for exams to get into college last year, Connor spent his senior year putting the finishing touches on Postcard.

Photo: Tim Duggan

 

Leimer grew up in a small suburb just south of Kansas City. For years, he wrote most of his songs in his bedroom - first with "The Telephone Takes" — a live, acoustic album that Leimer recorded on his iPhone 4 and released as a freshman.  That was before attending a summer workshop called the Grammy Project in 2013. There, he met a number of musicians who, like Leimer, were young and eager to leave their mark.

Months later, when he began recording Postcard at the Weights & Measures Soundlab studio in Kansas City, many of those new friends joined him.  Jason Moss, NYC-based on-the-rise mixing engineer lent his help. Local singer Gracie Schram (and Charlie Peacock protege), 21 year-old producer Max Griffith, banjo player Fritz Hutchison (of the Kansas City band She's A Keeper) and a three-piece horn section of UMKC Music Conservatory graduates, all participated in making Postcard.  Even so, Leimer wrote the songs from a personal place, reaching into his high school experience for a tracklist that veers between love songs, acoustic numbers, groove-based pop tunes and poignant tributes to home.

"This record represents a big chunk of my high school years," he explains. "It's everything that you face while growing up. All my friends came together and played on it, or helped me with artwork, or helped out with production. It's just a bunch of friends helping each other out."


It's also a peek into the diverse music collection of Leimer, who name checks artists like Jake Bugg, Jens Lekman and Van Morrison as influences on his own writing.

"Postcard" is very diverse," he adds. "There's reggae. There's singer-songwriter stuff. There's a folk song with fingerpicked guitar. There's acoustic pop too, and alternative music. I'm a songwriter, so I try to write in different styles frequently and I just focus on the song itself, and let it take me wherever it needs to go."
Connor Leimer is going places. "Postcard" is just a souvenir from the first stop along the way.

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