Southern Indiana musician Nick Dittmeier was hit with a lot of hardship during the recording of his new album, All Damn Day (due October 26th). “I went through a lot of deaths when I was starting to record this album,” he says. “So, a lot of the songs touch on people dying, something I normally wouldn’t have done.” When writing the album, Dittmeier got inspiration from literary legends John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Roald Dahl, and Mark Twain. It helped shape his record into one that’s not entirely somber but also hopeful and uplifting. Today, we feature the musician as part of our Fresh Wax series.
You’re currently based out of southern Indiana, where you grew up. How did that shape you as an artist?
The band is based out of Bloomington, IN and we’re kinda scattered around the Southern part of the state. I live in a town called Jeffersonville, IN and have lived in the same neighborhood my whole life. The town is on the Ohio River and I wrote a song about the 1937 Flood for the record called “City of God” and when I was writing the song I calculated that my family has been right here on the river for at least 5 generations….READ MORE