UPRISING

phone purchase into recording engineer Travis Hodge’s fully functioning home recording studio.

“Before the vocal booth was the vocal booth, he had a bed in there, and I’d go in and record,” Mosman said. “I’d sleep in that bed, and we’d just get started early in the morning.”

I caught up with Mosman shortly before he won second place in the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival songwriting contest and earned a spot at the festival’s main stage. Here are a few highlights from our chat:

ON COMPLETING ‘BRIDGES & BORDERLINES’

There’s so many people involved with this. I have a hard time doing any kind of interview without saying I don’t do this alone. I don’t make music by myself. I didn’t make this album by myself. Zach Wiederstein had a huge hand in it. People come out to shows, help out and shoot videos that we can post and spread the word around. Man, that makes it worth it.

ON HIS DAY JOB

I drive a truck. I deliver to ranches and farms all around Oklahoma. Monday through Friday, I’m out in the country with rural people and then at nights and on the weekends I’m right here on 23rd Street and in downtown Oklahoma City . ... I see the differences between everybody, obviously, but there’s some common ground. This is where the theme Oklahoma Uprising comes in. If we’re gonna move forward, then we gotta come together and do something about it. One of those ways to come together and overcome a lot of this junk, these dividing lines, is by sharing our stories with each other and by sharing things that we have in

Oklahoma Uprising EP release concert

Caleb Robertson, Gabriel Knight Hancock and more special guests 3 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday Anthem Brewing Co., 908 SW 4

21+, free to attend but donations accepted

Joel Mosman at Woody Guthrie Folk Festival

7:30 p.m. July 14 Pastures of Plenty main stage (Okemah)

www.woodyfest.com

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ON MULTI-TASKING

In today’s music industry, I’ve gotta be my own graphic designer, promoter, booking agent and videographer. I’ve gotta write the songs, and I have to promote the shows. I have to do all that stuff. Fortunately, I have a little bit of down time during the day. Like if I get a blowout on the highway or something, I can work on some of that stuff.

It’s just being able to switch modes. It’s being able to switch from work mode to dad mode to husband mode to performer mode to booking agent mode. It’s being able to say, “I’ve got fiveminutes right now, what can I be doing?”

I needed to put a harmonica part on one of the songs that wasn’t finished last night. It’s one of those last minute things. I had my brother-in-law over and my daughter’s there running around going crazy, and I’m like, “What am I gonna do?” I told my wife, “Alright, I’m going out to the minivan.” I fold the seats down, and I set up my microphone.I did my harmonica part in the back seat of the van in the middle of the night, sitting cross-legged. So, sometimes you gotta do stuff like that.

ON FATHERHOOD

When I had her, I was hanging out with her all the time and some of my buddies were like, “You’re not coming out to party.” And I’m like, “I’m having the craziest parties I’ve ever had now.” Have you ever partied with a 3-year-old? Because they party way harder than any 30-year-old I’ve ever met in my life.

I love being a dad so when I come home, and she wants to play Barbie dolls or she wants to run and play tag around the house, that takes priority.