How Noah Kahan Went from Vermont to TikTok to the Grammys

This month, Kahan released “Stick Season (Forever),” the third and final iteration of the album. (A deluxe version, titled “Stick Season (We’ll All Be Here Forever),” was released in 2023.) I told Kahan that the subtitles made me think of being young and feeling eternal. “My intention was to introduce this idea that you can never truly leave your home town,” he said. “Whether it’s physically or mentally, we still live in those places. When I wrote ‘Stick Season,’ I was home all the time, living through the positive and the negative of being in Vermont. When I released the album, I was touring all the time. I was singing about being stuck at home, but I was at some cool hotel in New York City. . . . ‘We’ll All Be Here Forever’ allows some grace for the person—I guess me, in this situation—who has left.” The new version of the album features duets with Post Malone, Kacey Musgraves, Hozier, Gracie Abrams, Sam Fender, Brandi Carlile, Lizzy McAlpine, and Gregory Alan Isakov. “I’ve definitely seen some fan responses, like, This motherfucker’s gonna keep releasing collabs? But I think the collaborations are really cool. I’m just doing what makes me happy.”