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Wailing City Spotlight: Interview With Toby Fatzinger of A Former Friend
Interview by Meghan Killimade
Tell us about A Former Friend – what’s the history of the band, who are the members and how did you all come together?
A Former Friend was really born in the wake of the first Trump election.
The songwriting and sound had been changing since we left Phoenix. I became heavily influenced by the time we spent in the South during a wildly morphing political zeitgeist and the tunes that were emerging leaned heavily on a rich history of American songwriting. Having grown up on punk rock and hip hop when I was young, I was finding a new inspiration at a pivotal time in the elements that combined to form rock and roll almost 100 years ago. I wanted to travel back to a time before genre distinctions where Hank Williams and Cole Porter did not seem so diametrically opposed. Finding artistic intersections became the motivation for my musical pursuit and A Former Friend seemed like a great vehicle to forward that pursuit through a modern lens.
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