Texas Highways Magazine

These Are My Confessions

dam’s girlfriend, friends, and family came from all over to the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island last year to celebrate his birthday in his absence. They were excited to catch the scheduled acts, but some of the best music they ended up hearing, they made themselves. It started when they saw a bright blue trailer called “Walker Lukens’s Song Confessional.” One after another, all weekend long, they climbed into the red-lined confessional booth—a creation of Walker Lukens, an Austin-based singer-songwriter, and his drummer, Zac Catanzaro—and told their stories into a microphone. On the other side of the wall that divided the trailer in two, an unseen interviewer asked questions and recorded their confessions.

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