Duncan Wood

Duncan Wood

Duncan Wood is a podcast hosted by Duncan Wood. It has 8 episodes, with the latest published March 2022.

Duncan Wood is a physicist and amateur engineer (and all around polymath) turned singer-songwriter-producer. He grew up in rural Maysville, Kentucky, a small town on the banks of the Ohio River. His family encouraged him to pursue his passion for music from a young age, and without professional instruction gained working proficiency on guitar, piano, and a large variety of wind instruments. Starting in middle school, he would jump back and forth among playing in his grandfather’s big band (where he was one of the youngest members by several decades), the school concert band, and various local rock bands. His musical influences are . . . eclectic, but the earliest and most central include the great songwriters James Taylor, Carole King, Lennon and McCartney.After high school, he moved to California to attend Stanford University and pursue his dream of becoming a physicist. There, he was exposed to real, live, improvised jazz while befriending and performing with world-class young mus

·en ·8 episodes