Music of (Many) Mountains: Where to be and what to see -- Katie Rose Nelson and Dustin Moran

Send us Fan MailKatie Rose Nelson and Dustin Moran first met just north of Salt Lake City around 2008. Working at Barnes and Noble together, they started talking about art: folk music, punk rock, poetry, Bob Dylan, movies, and every other topic they shared a mutual interest in. They started playing music together, starting with gigs in coffee shops around the area. Around 2010, they decided they both wanted a change of scenery, so they moved to Colorado, on the other side of the Rockies.The two have always played music together, but in 2013, they decided they wanted to focus more seriously on writing and performing together. They released their first EP that year, which is labeled on streaming as Katie Rose and Dustin Moran, as when they initially released the EP, they hadn’t decided on a moniker yet. The two cemented their name using a line taken from one of the songs on that EP, “Spoon,” which goes “Oh, please come and show me to the fountain, I have seen so many mountains.” From that line, Many Mountains stuck.By 2015, the two had cemented a band to back them up and started playing the brewery and coffee shop circuit. For the last seven years or so, they have brought the group back to a duo, focusing completely on their writing and performing together. Between 2013 and 2021, they released three EPs and two full-length albums, and at the beginning of 2024, they released the standalone single “Moment.”Our theme song is courtesy of singer-songwriter Brittney Wagner. Stream her record Better off Dead here. Support the showThank you for listening to The Mountain-Ear Podcast, featuring news and culture from peak to peak! Additional pages are linked below.If you want to be involved in the podcast or paper, contact:Barbara Hardt, our editor-in-chief, at [email protected] Hickman, multimedia producer, at [email protected] Lammers, podcast host, at [email protected] inquiries: [email protected] to our website for all of the latest news. Subscribe to The Mountain-Ear in print and online.Submit local events to promote them in the paper and on our website.Find us on Facebook @mtnear and Instagram @mtn.earListen and watch on YouTube today.Share this podcast by scrolling to the bottom of our website home page or by heading to our main hub on Buzzsprout.Thank you for listening!