According to Chisel, they both complement each other nicely, too. Chisel also confesses that he and Jones are old friends, and that this tour is a culmination of simply being in the same place long enough to figure out how to work together. He openly admits to being a great admirer of Jones, calling her a singer with a timeless quality and far-reaching appeal, and hopes that his musical influence might be similarly impacting. Of course, the ability to play support for one of the decade’s best-selling vocalists is no small feat, and Chisel is well aware of the opportunity. … We’re not a band that goes out and just replicates whatever you hear on the record,” he stresses. According to Chisel, his music is “a mix of a lot of influences … and sort of reorganized in a way that feels unique to us.” Equally unique is the band’s live performance, which Chisel says is about “constantly adapting to where you currently are as a performer, as an artist, as a person. On their latest album, Old Believers, Chisel and the Wandering Sons straddle the line between old school country and modern folk, drawing comparisons to Ryan Adams, Ryan Bingham, and even Elvis Costello.
“We have experiences are so common despite the massive amounts of space separating us.” “You realize how easy it is to feel that same sense of home in places couldn’t be more foreign to me,” he tells me. As the road stretches on before him, Chisel starts to reflect on touring life. When I chat with Chisel, he and his band, The Wandering Sons, are driving through the New Mexico desert, headed west for a string of dates with Norah Jones, which includes a stop at the Santa Barbara Bowl this Tuesday, August 7. From lyrics that depict hard-knock American living to the natural world metaphors that pepper our conversation, Chisel seems deeply influenced by his time spent in rural Wisconsin, a place he calls a “spiritual home than an actual destination.”
Though the idea of an actual hometown rests uneasy with Cory Chisel, the influence of growing up in the northern Midwest is ever-present in his music.
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