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\n\t\t<\/span>\u2019m fishing with Noah Kahan<\/a>, and things are looking pretty bleak. We\u2019re at a farm an hour west of Nashville, standing in front of a pond, casting our respective rods and waiting patiently. It\u2019s a perfect day for fishing \u2014 an afternoon in early April, not too windy, the sky so clear and blue its reflection bounces off the water. But so far, nothing\u2019s biting. Still, Kahan remains hopeful, as a camera crew looks on. \u201cIf we catch tilapia,\u201d the 29-year-old songwriter says, \u201cwe\u2019ll go viral as fuck.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAs the minutes tick by, that seems less and less likely. Kahan works the line firmly, wearing faded blue Levi\u2019s, a button-down flannel, and suede boots. \u201cI feel like my team\u2019s been dressing me more and more in cowboy-looking stuff, and they\u2019re eventually going to have to accept that I\u2019m not even close to a cowboy,\u201d he says. His shoulder-length brown hair matches his rugged beard. If you were thinking about poking fun of Kahan\u2019s look on social media, rest assured he\u2019s beat you to it. \u201cJesus Christ,\u201d \u201cDepressed Keanu Reeves,\u201d and \u201cJewish Capaldi\u201d are just some of the nicknames he\u2019s given himself over the years. (Kahan took a break from Twitter, but recently returned, which he likens to \u201cLeBron coming back to Cleveland.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\n\tThis self-deprecating charm is part of Kahan\u2019s appeal, and one reason among many that millions of listeners fell hard for the Vermont-raised songwriter back in 2022. That\u2019s when he broke through, seemingly out of nowhere, with \u201cStick Season<\/a>,\u201d written after he\u2019d moved back home to his parents\u2019 property in Strafford during the pandemic (he now splits his time between Vermont and Nashville). The highly addictive folk-pop song \u2014 which grapples with heartbreak amid that grim, lifeless in-between period in the Northeast, after the fall foliage and before the first snowfall \u2014 blew up on TikTok.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cStick Season,\u201d and the album of the same name, earned Kahan a Best New Artist Grammy<\/a> nomination and a musical guest spot on Saturday Night Live<\/em>. Soon, he started selling out arenas, where fans would shout and sob along to his songs \u2014 deceptively simple melodies with intricate lyrics that are simultaneously ultra-specific and highly relatable, often about love, mental-health struggles, and the joys and frustrations of growing up in a small town.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s refreshing to me that someone like Noah has become a superstar, because he\u2019s the anti-idol,\u201d says producer (and co-founder of the National) Aaron Dessner<\/a>, who\u2019s worked with Kahan. \u201cHe\u2019s not seeking it. He\u2019s far more gifted than anyone might really know unless you\u2019ve been up close to hear him sing. He\u2019s one of the most brilliant songwriters we have today, and we should make a lot of records.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cStick Season\u201d helped turn Kahan into a big name and a hero throughout New England (in addition to his native Vermont, he\u2019s also lived in New Hampshire and, later, Massachusetts, and even has a collaboration with L.L. Bean). But he\u2019s a different kind of superstar \u2014 a down-to-earth and delightful human who exudes everyman energy, and whose idea of a good time is hanging out with his two German shepherds and smoking weed. It\u2019s almost as if your sweet, stoner neighbor accidentally got famous but still invites you over for Taco Bell on Tuesday nights (specifically to consume the Crunch Wrap Supreme, \u00adKahan\u2019s favorite). So it\u2019s not totally surprising that Kahan found that fame took some getting used to, and that success doesn\u2019t fix everything. \u201cEvery clich\u00e9 about music has proven so true for me,\u201d he says. \u201cLike, \u2018You can get everything you want, and it\u2019s still not going to do it!\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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