For those unaware, Folk‑Americana songwriter Michael Veitch has long believed that songs are living things — carriers of memory, mentors in disguise, emotional landmarks that stay with us long after the moment passes.

On October 12th, 2026, he released “Discovered,” a new album produced by Julie Last, gathering thirteen songs that have shaped his artistic life. Each track is a story, a friendship, a coincidence, or a turning point — a songwriter’s memoir told through other people’s works.

Veitch’s journey has never followed a straight line. He grew up in Vermont, found his artistic footing in Greenwich Village’s Monday Night Songwriters Meeting led by Jack Hardy, and was encouraged early on by Shawn Colvin, who sent him to Hardy’s legendary circle.

He later opened a tour for Colvin, performed at the Newport Folk Festival, won a songwriting award at Kerrville, and continued building a career rooted in community, conscience, and craft.

His political and humanitarian instincts were shaped in part by Bernie Sanders, whose mentorship helped Veitch understand that songs — like leadership — can be both beautifully built and socially awake.

1. Misunderstood
2. I Don’t Know Why
3. Walk Away Renee
4. Two Feet Ahead of the Train
5. Dachau
6. Hungry Dogs of New Mexico
7. Secret O’Life
8. Windowsills
9. One Island to Another
10. Brooklyn
11. From Where You Came
12. God Bless Johnny Cash
13. If We Ever Meet Again

Not choosing to go for the obvious on “Discovered” - instead incorporating some obscure cuts, including those by his mentors Jack Hardy and Shawn Colvin - he opens this rapturously engaging new recording on the dulcetly warming Misunderstood and a beautifully languishing refrain within I Don’t Know Why and then we are gifted an emotive take on Walk Away Renee, the harmonica-driven Americana of Two Feet Ahead of the Train and both the plush balladry of Dachau and an impassioned Hungry Dogs of New Mexico.

Along next is the delicately elegant Secret O’Life and the gently robust rhythmical fare of Windowsills and they are in turn backed seamlessly by the melodiously sculpted One Island to Another, the sonorous Brooklyn and the delicately graceful From Where You Came, the set rounding out on the harmoniously engaging God Bless Johnny Cash, coming to a close on an emotive If We Ever Meet Again.

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