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Hello. I'm Zach Wheat. It's not my real name, mind you, but a nickname given to me by an old friend, a neighbor in a certain building in Koreatown in Los Angeles, where I lived for eight years doing UNIX things that made me fat and anti-social, before consumating my self-destruction and enrolling into grad school in Israel.
My guitar is named after a girl I had a crush on in elementary school who died in a car accident when I was 10. It's an electric/classical Takamine given to me by another neighbor in the same building. I decided I had to be musician when I was 31, drinking with childhood friends in Austin and saw the Haden Triplets play at South by Southwest.
I make what I think is called Americana. Unless it's something else. I'm too old to keep up with the marketing slogans of the music industry,
I prefer to think of it as blues or rock n' roll, but Israelis know everything about everything. You can ask any random Israeli a question, and not only do they have an answer, they will swear that theirs trumps any primary source you could hope to find.
They call it country, which makes me the victim of occasional reverse orientalism.
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The Evolution of Zach Wheat:
Israel, year one
Israel, year two
Israel, year three
Elad Avni (bass)
Babush Wald (guitar)