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Art of the Song is a one-hour, independently-produced radio show with music and interviews exploring inspiration and creativity through songwriting and other art forms. The program is heard on over 160 stations worldwide. Learn why songwriters and artists create, how they become inspired, and how you can tap into that creative source in every aspect of your life.
Meredith Wilder is an Americana Folk artist of the highest (unknown) caliber currently residing in the appropriate state of Colorado. Her latest solo project, The Coming of the Night, holds the unique ability of covering nearly every range of human emotion. Mel Minter of Musically Speaking writes of Wilder’s latest album:
“Could Wilder be the love child of Loretta Lynn and Leonard Cohen? Her songs have some of Lynn’s country heartache and grit, and like Cohen, she’s befriended desperation, having recognized it as a fellow traveler in the human condition. She also has the determination of each to resist self-delusion and endure the sweet ache of life.”
Indeed, she has also been described as having “the voice of an angel” and “reminiscent of Lera Lynn” as well as dubbed the “Songbird of the Sandias”.
Meredith Wilder’s music is gritty, innocent, cursed, and heart-warming all at the same time. Her first solo album (Self-Titled) is heart-breaking at times, and others it is uplifting. Her lyrics reveal her vulnerability, and, at the same time express heartbreaking hopefulness. Some might describe her first album as combination of Lera Lynn’s grittiness with Zooey Deschanel’s childlike innocence. Her second album, The Coming of the Night, can be considered more grown up, yet Meredith doesn’t lose her innocence and hopefulness. Wilder evokes her own memories in order to transport her listeners through a personal journey, sometimes with despondent intrepidness, and at other times with vivacious jauntiness.
Meredith’s relationship with music fruited at a young age. Growing up Lutheran she loved singing hymns. Naturally she would embrace lyrics and music through her familial support with her father singing her and her sisters to sleep at night. He even played piano and guitar. One listen to an album she is invested in is proof positive of her indefinable friendship with music.
Wilder has an extensive background working with some of the most talented Americana and folk musicians in the country. She is vocalist and guitarist as the front woman in the band Wildewood which released two albums (the self-titled Wildewood and The Other Side) with her friends Alex McMahon (multi-instrumentalist & vocalist) and Greg Williams (drums & harmonica). Meredith has also sung harmonies for folk artist Daniel C. Boling, for songwriter and composer of stages and screens Kevin Hume, for Albuquerque’s own Cali Shaw (formally of the funk band Felonious Groove Foundation), as well as with Albuquerque’s proud folk artist AJ Woods, among many others.
Meredith is one of three songwriters in the two Brush Strokes albums In Medias Res and Day Dreams with Colin Baiollio and Nathan Fetherolf (Brush Strokes is a musical collaboration created over a distance of 1,400 miles). She has also collaborated with Albuquerque’s Sage Harrington to create an album of recorded poems of works by Sara Teasdale set to come out in the near future.
