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Episode 122: Alex Bergan
Alex Bergan
Folk Singer, Navy Veteran & SDMA Winner
...Alex Bergan is a San Diego–based folk artist and Navy veteran. A multi-time San Diego Music Awards winner and was named 2025 Male Vocalist of the Year by San Diego Magazine.
Guest Alex Bergan joins for a show that starts with Charlotte the studio spider, a brand-new motorhome, and a full Walk Hard / Dewey Cox recitation — then goes deep on Yokosuka-to-San-Diego Navy life, a six-month writer's block, and why he won't get on stage unless every word is real.
Northern Iowa kid who taught himself piano on grandpa's player piano, wrote his first song at 15, and still answers "what do you play?" with "I'm a sad folk singer" — folk, country, Americana, and the occasional pop-rock curveball
In the Navy (aviation ordnance), first duty Yokosuka, medically retired 2020 — played clubs in Japan, Dubai, and Australia on every port visit because the dream was always music, music, music
Latest single "North of Somewhere"; Iowa hometown hymn "That Place"; live in-studio "Go Down Swinging" from the 2025 record Undercover — the song that fell out of the sky in an Austin hotel the night before a gig
Song for Chief Joshua Cox — talk about it so nobody sitting with it feels that lonely; if you need an ear, reach out... please.
Usually six months a year on the road (25–30 tours); Europe pushed to 2027; packing for Tennessee and coming back in February for a Valentine's Day show.
Duo The Wellsprings with wife Megan (she can harmonize with a blow dryer); "Stick Around" feat. Lauren Lee; "Hair of the Dog" with Ash Easton (2026 San Diego Music Award) — a love song for best friend Justin John Rodriguez