Rural singer-songwriter Margo Cilker's pandemic hustle is paying off
The pandemic was especially tough for up-and-coming musicians from smaller cities and towns. But for at least one country rocker from the rural Northwest, it may have leveled the playing field.
BOISE, Idaho — Margo Cilker's songs bring listeners to the West's more forgotten places: from the 99 freeway through California farm country south to Tehachapi Pass to the north and Jordan Valley, Ore.
"Took a room at the old Basque hotel, it was like a kind of prayer when eyelids fell," go the lyrics from That River, the first track on her first full length LP Pohorylle.
The lack
