Biography

Tillamook Burn is mother-daughter blues and folk duo from the mountains of northwest Oregon.

Lauren Sheehan and Zoë Carpenter launched Tillamook Burn in January 2015 with a self-titled EP, which features their instinctive vocal harmonies backed up on guitar, banjo, and mandolin. Much of their music comes directly from time spent with some of America’s greatest folk and blues artists, including John Jackson, Cephas and Wiggins, Corey Harris, Ginny Hawker and Tracy Scwarz, Etta Baker, Howard Armstrong, Joe Thompson and others.

Deemed a “one-woman Americana jukebox” (Huffington Post), Lauren began her solo career in 2003 and since then has performed at numerous national festivals, been heard on BBC and NPR, charted at the top of folk radio charts, and in 2012 won a Portland Music Award. Zoë grew up steeped in Amerian roots music and began her professional collaboration with Lauren in 2011.