Long Mama

Long Mama’s music blisters with the heart and grit of someone who has lost hard, loved harder, and licked her burns until they stung then silvered. In a drafty attic just west of the Milwaukee River she grew up on, you’ll find songwriter Kat Wodtke (Wood-key) raking through notebooks in search of a salve: words, stories, and sounds to temper the dumpster fires we never mean to light. Flickering behind each song is Wodtke’s lived insight into our human faults & fissures – the moments in life when we can slip and lose our footing, or claw our way out…better people on the other side of the blaze. 
 Poor Pretender, Long Mama’s debut album, embraces a rich spectrum of light and shadow, heat and cold. Featuring Andrew Koenig (electric guitar), Samual Odin (upright bass), Nick Lang (drums), Eva Nimmer (backing vocals), and Erik Koskinen (lap steel, wurlitzer, and more), the ten-song collection’s palette of country, folk, indie rock, and punk reflects its makers' coming-of-age in the rustbelt crossroads of north, south, east, & west. Engineered by Koskinen and recorded live over a long, snowy weekend in Cleveland, Minnesota, the album showcases the band’s particular ability to conjure the beautiful in the broken, the silver in the ore.