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A Musical Life: Piper Lou-Reneé

Piper Lou-Reneé is a singer-songwriter based in Hutchinson, Kansas, who has released several albums, including 2016’s Regards, Girl.  

“I, for a long time, labeled myself as a songwriter who wrote sad songs for sad people. Just because of where I am in life I’m not sad anymore. I’ve found that probably within the last year I wrote a lot of happy things.

My songs are my journals and if you listen to any of them you’re going to have a really good insight into my life and who I am as a human and what I love and what hurts my heart, too. That’s what songwriting is to me and that’s my release.” 

Jedd Beaudoin is host/producer of the nationally syndicated program Strange Currency. He created and host the podcast Into Music, which examines musical mentorship and creative approaches to the composition, recording and performance of songs. As a music journalist, his work has appeared in PopMatters, Vox, No Depression and Keyboard Magazine.