It has become my daily ritual to walk there. Luke rests easy just down the road from our house at the town cemetery. “You and I both know that the house is haunted You and I both know that the ghost is me” Dearly Departed and losing Luke are forever entwined for me, but in the most positive of ways. Every time those opening beats of Dearly Departed would come over the speakers, I would look down the long line of people and that song would fill me with the energy to get through. More than 1000 people came that evening and it took everything I had to stay strong. I know you didn’t write the lyrics about losing a loved one, but when we were selecting songs to play at Luke’s wake I knew I wanted that song. I am grateful that a friend of ours had introduced us to your music before then, and Dearly Departed was already a favorite song of mine. My son Luke passed away on April 14, 2015.
You need to know that even now, three years later, your music is what I turn to when my heart needs to remember or needs to be lifted. You need to know that your words helped me get through the incredibly hard days when I first lost my seventeen year old son.
You need to know that your songs saved my life. Only time will tell.I have never written a love letter to a songwriter before, but here I am. Those unanswerable questions and more are the reasons I love dangling between the faith that I have the capacity to experience and wield something unearthly and the knowledge that I could easily just be on the fast track to a padded room. Maybe its one, maybe it is shakey graves, maybe I can only talk to it while im in an altered state, maybe Im always talking to it. Much like broken hearts and wanderlust, mysticism and spiritual quest oozes into my songwriting whether I like it or not, and sometimes I feel like I am writing the story of a man (or woman) long since dead. I also have experienced a lot of unexplainables, and have had direct contact with grand mystery.
I wear the theosophical seal due to many reasons, one of which being the slogan "there is no religion higher than the truth" which sings to my soul. I see great benefit and wonder come from peering directly into the unknown, but much like staring into the sun there are favorable and often necessary conditions and preparations. Certain beliefs dictate that simply imbibing spirits (booze) is doing that very thing, not to mention the myriad of other substances that can and will take your mind farther from your body and closer to the edge of "it". Ill start by saying "letting the ghost in" can go really really wrong, mainly due to the fact that there are a lot of ghosts. Point being Ive always made my music so that I can listen to it, its very satisfying, and if no one was paying attention to it I would still amass it as I have in the past and sleep sound with the knowledge that I have gold under my bed that someone might find after I die. Rags to riches! Or at least just rags to newer rags. If you are constantly living by some sort of insane standard by telling yourself "I am literally the best technical guitar player in Texas" you'll either have to become that or drive yourself insane for the rest of days.who knows it might work out, either way its always beneficial to see yourself as a diamond in the rough, a street rat, because thats the most wonderful story arch to accomplish. But I truly think its important to always perceive yourself artistically as you would want people to perceive you. Dont get me wrong there have been billions of times where I have scrapped what I was doing or gotten way down on myself playing like shit in front of people. Take a look through some of our "Best Of" yearly lists, containing the best artists and tracks from previous years, curated and sorted just for you.
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