Walker Lukens "Song Confessional"

Song Confessional’s mission is to enable today’s top songwriters to create new songs inspired by everyday people’s experiences. Song Confessional collects recordings of people telling their own stories and then gives these recordings to songwriters who transform them into new original songs. Many of them are featured on our NPR podcast, Song Confessional.

Started by Austin musicians, Walker Lukens and Zac Catanzaro, the project was initially conceived as a music festival activation. In pre-pandemic times, the duo traveled to various festivals and events around the country in their blue camper trailer / recording studio. Attendees could hop into the trailer and be recorded recounting any experience they wanted. These ‘confessions,’ as we like to call them, were then shared with songwriters to write and record an original song. Once recorded, we’d press the song to a one-off 7” vinyl record and send it to the confessor who inspired it all. Our favorite songs are featured on our podcast.