Mitch Zorn

For Mitch Zorn, his approach to songwriting has always been “Win, lose, or tie, I’m going to do this forever, so I might as well do it the best way I can – authentically – and say what I want to say.” Finding his place is a thread Zorn teases out of lead single, ‘Home’ – a track that beautifully sums up Zorn’s ‘full circle’ musical and personal journey from his hometown of Nakusp, BC, across Canada and the US, and back again.

Zorn joined his father’s blues band at nine. “My dad had a guitar in his hands my whole life. He’s a singer, grandma’s a singer, aunties are singers. We played all kinds of shows and practiced twice a week for most of my life.” By age twelve, Zorn was writing his own songs, “Writing was cathartic. I didn’t think of music as a career. I just loved it, so I’d bury myself in my room and write every day.”

After high school and the first of many trips to Nashville however, he decided to give music a shot, but, knowing full well a straight nine to five job would interfere, got his electrician’s ticket and landed a job in Texas – 4 weeks on/2 weeks off – splitting his time between the oil fields and Nashville. Ultimately, five years on, Zorn made good on a promise he’d made to himself to move home to Nakusp.

Over time, Zorn has developed a knack for taking the stuff of everyday life we all deal with, weaving in his personal experiences, and writing songs that speak to the kind of yearning we all feel for finding that one place where we belong.