Who: Sofia Talvik

From: Gothenburg, Sweden

SongL “Blood Moon” 

Latest Album: Paws of a Bear

What About It: “Driving from Yellowstone to Boise there was a lot of smoke in the air from all the forest fires in Montana and Idaho. Even with the windows closed and the fan off it was stinging my eyes. Every evening when the moon rose through that smoky sky it was bright red. It was quite an astounding view. Almost eerie. I was looking at the moon and I was thinking about how people all over the world were looking at that same moon, and how in Sweden or Germany or anywhere else it wasn’t red like my moon was,” Talvik tells Wide Open Country. “Maybe their moon was white or a little bit yellow, but it was still the same moon, and how that was such a great metaphor for basically everything in life, how you look at that same thing, but depending on where you stand you will see it completely different, and that inspired me to write this song.”