VANCOUVER SINGER-SONGWRITER AND ACTOR EVAN RODERICK SHARES NEW SINGLE, “TRAVELING BLUES”
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Following the release of his 2025 ballad "Early Years", the Vancouver based singer-songwriter and actor Evan Roderick returns with "Traveling Blues", a sun-drenched, southwest-inflected track that feels tailor-made for long summer drives. Delicate guitar work and electric piano weave around soaring slide guitar and an effortless vocal performance, creating a soundtrack for open highways. Beneath its breezy exterior, however, lies a song about heartbreak, distance, and the hope that some connections might still find their way back.
"'Traveling Blues' is about the particular cruelty of a beautiful summer day spent alone on the road," says Roderick. "The irony of feeling your most isolated when the world outside is perfect. Sonically, it's the feeling I was reaching for—light and breezy, the version of Summer I was desperate to get back to."
It's this contrast of joy and pain that defines much of Roderick's songwriting: songs that feel warm and accessible on the surface carry emotional weight underneath. As he continues to release new music throughout 2026, Evan Roderick is establishing himself not simply as an actor who makes music, but as a songwriter with a clear voice and a growing catalogue of heartfelt, road-worn songs that linger long after the final note fades.
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MORE ABOUT EVAN RODERICK
Music found Evan Roderick young. As kids, he and his brother would spend hours rewriting lyrics to an array of different records, discovering a natural pull toward writing and rhyming. But it wasn't until later in his teens, discovering albums like Jackson Browne's Saturate Before Using, that he found his love for the guitar — and while that world clearly shaped him, what he's made of it is his own. Soon after, he was writing his own material, drawn to the unhurried emotional honesty of folk and the way it could carry real weight without announcing itself. It's a sensibility he's been refining ever since.
While Evan never stopped writing music, his youth was spent pursuing a career as an athlete. He spent three seasons playing hockey in the BCHL before earning an NCAA Division I scholarship to the University of Massachusetts Lowell. A series of injuries ultimately redirected his path, but the discipline, resilience, and perspective gained through years of competitive sport continued to inform more creative pursuits, and he began a new journey as a storyteller.
With his dreams of hockey in the rear view mirror he found a new passion as an actor, eventually landing roles as a leading man in Netflix's Spinning Out and appearing in the WB’s Arrow. However, during all this time the Vancouver-based artist continued honing his craft as a songwriter. Now influenced by his work in front of the camera, his lyrics are cinematic and draw inspiration from artists like Jason Isbell, Wilco, Tyler Ramsey and of course Jackson Browne. His music blends Americana, folk-rock, and roots influences with deeply personal stories. The songs are grounded in real-life experiences, finding beauty in uncertainty, longing, and the moments that shape us.