Listen to an exclusive preview of the latest episode of SongWriter, featuring author Dave Eggers and singer/songwriter Vienna Teng.
. The deceptively simple story follows a group of children and an older veteran as they take a long walk in the California wilderness north of San Francisco.grew up nearby, and knows the landscape well. But it was the story’s emotional arc, and the underlying themes of existential vulnerability and intergenerational connection that really resonated with her. During the pandemic Vienna read the story out loud to her family.
“Everyone was just spellbound,” Vienna says. “I remember there were a couple of moments where I’m like, ‘I have to pause and collect myself before I read this next sentence because it’s hitting me in a way I didn’t expect.’” After pursuing a few songwriting dead ends, Vienna eventually wrote a song called “The Riversitter ,” and recorded it in her home studio.
“To say I was floored would be an understatement,” Dave recalls. “It hit me like a truck. To know that somebody with her talent would take the time to compose a song based on a story of mine, and to do it with such subtlety and delicacy, it really knocked me flat.”
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