An exclusive word from Miwi about his song: Buffalo Folk

(From Team Love Records series - Filmed by Mike Allen and produced by Conor Oberst)

“You write what you know. The song is a  snapshot into the mind of a young songwriter coming of age in the early aughts, Buffalo, NY.

Our band Thought would often play late into the night at our beloved Heenan's (Now McGarrett's) on Elmwood Ave and Bidwell. We were a young, working band!
I had been listening to more folk, blues and country music at the time while at school for Jazz and Classical music in Rochester, NY, but spent summer living at mom's house. I was 19, I think and writing songs anywhere and everywhere, I could. Even while temporarily employed at Tim Horton's or Dexter Shoes (Melinda was my boss!).

I'd bring these songs into the band who were always willing to play in different styles of music.
I drew on my life experiences, and also the experience that everyone in the Greater Buffalo region can relate to: weather.

Thought hadn't recorded this song in the studio, so many years later while making my second Miwi La Lupa record, I thought it might be a good time to pull this song out, as it blended with some of the more folk-related writing on the record. I had befriended two prolific songwriting producers in Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes) who co-produced the record in the studio in Omaha, NE (Ended Up Making Love - Team Love Records '16). Timothy James and I had played this song countless times in Thought, so he knew just what to do! Mike Mogis added his brilliance on Mandolin and the rest is... well... on the record.

These Omaha friends we made while living in NYC had striking character similarities to folks we knew from Buffalo. We coined the term BuffalOmaha. It tracks to this day.
At a recent show in Buffalo, I expressed that though I haven't lived there in 20 years, I rep hard in my travels with music. You can take the dude out of Buffalo, but you can't take Buffalo out the dude. Go Bills!

Love my Buffalo Folk. Stand Strong. This too shall pass before long.”
“Trust the pros from Buffalo: We know snow."