For Eugene-based singer-songwriter Rudolf Korv, it’s about honoring the journey, while never losing sight of where he’s been. It’s about listening to the small voice that guides us along the way, whether it comes from somewhere deep inside, or someplace high above. 

One night, seven years ago, Korv heard such a voice, in Lake Havasu City where Korv was born and raised, and had lived his entire life. Korv listened to that voice, leading the musician to where he is today, writing and playing music in the Willamette Valley town of Eugene, Oregon.

That journey is now chronicled in Korv’s latest single, “Oregon (The Land that I love),” out now on all major music streaming services and features lushly strummed acoustic guitar with echoes of pedal steel guitar over a skeletal framework of ringing piano chords.

The music Korv plays can only be described as Americana.  Like a lot of teenagers in the `90s, Korv grew up listening to Pearl Jam and Nirvana, and you can hear a bit of Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder in Korv’s sonorous growl, “but when I would write, it would come out way more tender,” Korv remembers. 

 “I don’t even know where that came from. It wasn’t stuff that I would even listen to. Growing up and getting older, you find this genre of Americana, which is kind of like this mutt of music of all different kinds. That where I really found a home,” he says.

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