Noah Kahan, born in Strafford, Vermont in 1997, is an American singer-songwriter whose homespun indie folk broke huge with Stick Season (2022). The expanded Stick Season (We'll All Be Here Forever) — with Hozier, Kacey Musgraves, and Post Malone dropping in — carried it to number three on the Billboard 200. Find Noah Kahan vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Noah Benjamin Kahan was born in Strafford, Vermont on January 1, 1997. He launched his recording career in the late 2010s with self-released material before signing with Republic Records. His 2019 debut Busyhead and 2021 follow-up I Was / I Am established his early audience in the contemporary indie folk and folk pop scenes. His 2022 album Stick Season - written about his Vermont upbringing, mental health, and rural American experience - became a commercial breakthrough through TikTok virality across 2022-2023. The 2023 expanded reissue Stick Season (We'll All Be Here Forever) - featuring guest contributions from Hozier, Kacey Musgraves, Post Malone, and others - extended the album's commercial trajectory, reaching number three on the Billboard 200 in 2024 and establishing him as a defining figure in contemporary indie folk.
Noah Kahan's sound combines indie folk, folk pop, indie rock, Americana, alternative folk, and singer-songwriter with his distinctive vocal delivery and lyrical content addressing mental health, family, rural American experience, and personal experience drawing on autobiographical Vermont reference points alongside contemporary indie folk songwriting traditions.
Republic Records and Mercury Records pressings of the Noah Kahan catalog have been issued in extensive color variant editions and limited deluxe pressings, with collector demand.
Listeners new to Noah Kahan typically start with Stick Season (2022).
