Luke Redfield, who plays at The brewLAB in Carpinteria on Saturday, Dec. 12, comes to the California coast with a lifetime of traveling behind and ahead of him. The never-idle Redfield originally hails from Minnesota but loves to spend his life on the road, where unbounded horizons and the histories of deeply musical cities bring out inspiration. His newest EP, Uncover The Magic, features cinematic country-western tunes with beautiful slide guitar. I talked to him about the new EP, life on the road, and his favorite places.
Where are you right now?Right now I'm at a coffee shop in Fort Collins, Colorado. It's nice and sunny. Still got a winter coat on, little bit of snow on the ground, mid-40s …
You have lived quite an itinerant life. When did your travels begin? I started traveling when I was 21, 22. I'm 32 now, and it's been about 10 years of just drifting around. I dunno, I just got kind of addicted. I went to Europe with a guitar on my back, played a couple bars and coffee shops over there and took a liking to being on the road. Being in a new place every night just really inspired me, and I just decided to keep doing it. I've tried to settle down in certain places for a few months at a time and end up getting stifled creatively and find if I travel and go place to place I feel a lot happier and healthier and more creative and able to do more of what I enjoy doing.