Blog: LocalCut

Portland producer Mike Coykendall puts his own foot forward. IMAGE: Courtesy of Field Hymns Records Thirty years ago, Norwich, Kan., wasn't really a rock 'n' roll town. Luckily, a teenage Mike Coykendall had an older brother with a guitar and an amp. "He could play 'Day Tripper' and 'Interstellar Overdrive,'" says Coykendall, wrapped up in a gray fleece coat and ushanka outside Southeast Portland's Albina Press. "He was kind of a wild child. [So] I knew about some stuff no one else really knew about." Were it not [...]