Bozeman Magazine

As folk as any alternative musician and as alternative as any folk artist, singer/songwriter Gregory Rawlins is tougher to pin down than a feral cat. The Port Orchard, Washington native continues to engage and inspire peers for his inventive compositions, austere command of language, and homegrown honesty—translating to what one coined as, “Alternatively Bestial Truck- stop Folk.” While his subject matter falls somewhere between the natural reverence of the incorruptible John Denver and the unsettling introspection of Leonard Cohen, Rawlins’ playing style courts quick, jangly, Guthrie- like strumming and delicate alternating thumb finger picking that recalls a Southern country/blues tinge of Townes Van Zandt or R.L. Burnside.