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INTERVIEW | The Twelve Labors of Quinn Henry Mulligan
Meet Quinn Henry Mulligan, who in 2017 discovered himself on the cusp of uncertainty. His band, Fanno Creek, was kaput and he despised his job. On top of that, he couldn’t remember the last time he’d written a song.
One night, drunk, and sitting on the front porch with his twin brother, he posed an existential question: “What if I’m not a musician anymore?”
His brother, Finley Mulligan, filmmaker, wagered, “If you record one album, every month, I’ll produce ‘em.”
So that’s what he did. He recorded and released twelve albums in 2018, one every month, an undertaking akin to the Twelve Labors of Hercules. The albums delivered contagious blends of folk music with psychedelic rock savors, proving what everyone already knew — Quinn was a talented musician.
His new music video is entitled “Older,” a song about balancing the realities of life with the passage of time, and not becoming mired in the rut of unmet expectations.
I sat down with Quinn Henry Mulligan to find out drives a person to churn out twelve albums in twelve months, and because I like his new video, which features a trippy green demon who joins him for a night of revelry.
