Reed Turner

Born in Portland and raised in Austin, Turner came home in early August with a new six- song EP that he calls “my own outsider’s analysis of the things I witnessed during a very ambivalent period of life.” Although he writes in first-person, the songs on SIDE ONE: SEE HOW FAR I GET aren’t necessarily autobiographical. But they’re unflinchingly personal. From the title track, with its search for meaning, to the EP-closing “Acrobats & Soldiers,” the young protagonist seems to grow more comfortable with who he is.

The same could be said for Turner’s four years at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he majored in songwriting, His high school band, Dissidents, won second best U- 18 Band in The Austin Chronicle’s Austin Music Awards in 2004, but lead singer Turner had been playing guitar less than two years when he was accepted at the prestigious school of budding virtuosos. “I was pretty green compared to most of the other students,” he said. “But I soaked it all up and learned so much. It was like moving to Italy to learn how to speak Italian.”

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