By Amalia Vagts
It's a startlingly sunny day in Decorah, Iowa just days after flooding ravaged our corner of the Midwest. It's almost impossible to remember the rainy days before as singer-songwriter Michelle Lynn and I sit in the green grass of the the Winneshiek County Courthouse and talk about music, her new album, and what inspires her to write and perform. But the floods and the larger issues of climate change and societal shifts can't help but make their way into the conversation, as Michelle talks about the dynamic of growing up and documenting it in her music at the same time.
Michelle leans against the stone staircase and describes pieces of her childhood in Monona, Iowa. Music caught her interest at an early age, but she found other avenues to express her experiences. She talks of her early interest in "seeing it on a historical level," and the daily journal kept faithfully since age 11. At 17, she found the guitar.
"And I just started hammering away at the guitar, and at writing music," she says. "I really feel like I landed in a spot you can never trump with music. Music moves and grows with you as you get older, you are always progressing."
Michelle describes music as her source of inspiration and mode of self-observation....
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