Will Levith

2+ albums

americanafolksinger-songwriterBrooklyn

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This story begins and ends with music. When Will Levith was growing up in Saratoga Springs, NY, there was always music on in the house—classical music. His dad was an amateur violinist, so those were the records he’d hear and the concerts he’d see early on. You could say Will’s earliest influences were artists like Beethoven and Mozart. After taking six years of piano lessons, Will picked up the cello, which he would go on to have an 11-year love-hate relationship with (practicing was never Will’s cup of tea). Will’s cello teacher used to say that he played the LOUDS really well—but never had an ear for the softs. This is how Will came to discover punk music, and in high school, he delved deep into the world of the Misfits (Earth A.D.) and Face to Face (Don’t Turn Away). Around the same time, Levith bought his first electric guitar, a red Fender Stratocaster Squire—along with a 10-watt Mashall practice amp that he had to hide in the basement under a sheet. From that point forward, Will started writing scads of songs, mostly about being lonely and the girls that he liked at school. Fast-forward 17 years, and Will Levith is still writing the same types of songs and playing the guitar, but he favors the acoustic over the electric. Most of his stuff is still rooted in the aggressiveness and rebelliousness of punk—but gets a softer, woodier edge, without all that distortion (see? Will’s learned his SOFTs after all). Will Levith currently makes his home in Brooklyn, NY, and shares