Connor Jay Liess

Connor Jay Liess is a singer-songwriter, Idaho folkster and balladeer, and roadkill mortician based in Boise, Idaho. His songs and stories aim to bridge the gap between a festering modernity and an evaporating timelapse of woodsmanship, gold prospecting, railroad engineers, and men and women of the American frontier.

Since he was a teenager, he has been on a never-ending migration back to the days when people lived closer to the land, passed stories around a fire or supper table, and weren’t laden with the stupidity of social media trends and politics. Liess has always felt disconnected from the modern age and uses his songs and stories to retreat deep into a reclusive asylum full of crackling vinyl, chirping songbirds, and resonant banjos.

Connor Jay Liess currently lives in Boise, Idaho, where he works as an outdoor writer, lead engineer and producer at Trapper’s Attic Records, and performs locally in southwest Idaho both solo and with his vintage country-rock outfit, The Chuckwagons.