Charlie King (Photo courtesy of Katelyn Flanagan)

For those interested in listening to some alternative folk, come out to the Evening Muse to watch Charlie King and Levi Weaver perform live.

King was 12-year-old when he received his first guitar for Christmas. “I got the guitar and took guitar lessons for a few months and hated that I wasn’t just shredding the guitar immediately,” King says.

King had quit guitar for about a year when his best friends got a guitar and drum set for Christmas.

“We were best friends and we all had instruments so we were a band and none of us knew how to play,” King says. “All we knew was that we had instruments and we were best friends, so I learned how to play music in a band actually and it kind of just stuck with me.”

According to King, part of the difficulty in pursuing a career in music was figuring out where to start with it. “There’s no road map or blueprints for a music career, everybody’s career looks different and starts in a different way,” King says.

King is expecting to release his next EP, “Path of the Moon,” sometime in between mid-December and mid-January.

For this project, King took a trip to a beach house in February where he wrote several songs in complete solitude.

“I have a buddy whose family has a beach house in Moorhead city and they let me stay at the beach house for the weekend,” King says. “I just took my guitar, my book and some bourbon and didn’t leave the house for three days.”

King says that half of his performance on August 8 can be expected to be made up of new songs from his upcoming EP.

According to King, his latest project has a much different feel to it compared to his last one.

“Whereas my first project was a lot more atmospheric, this next project is going to be a little more straight up,” King says. “It’s more singer-songwriter; it will have a more brutal sound to it.”

When it comes to his lives shows, King describes them as being very intimate.

“I like to make it easy for an audience to truly see me,” King says. “It leaves viewers and listeners to almost always feel the same way I do about myself.”