McFarland and Scott Davis. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. In Memoriam: Daniel Johnston, Jan. Albums Books Festivals Concerts. Project 5. It so often needs to be approached like a spectrum. Like where do you fall in this? Do you feel more like this or do you feel more like that? There are a lot of people we can be alienating. There is a lot yet we have to learn about ourselves.
I guess we have gone into a totally different direction laughing ,. It was meant to be provocative as shown by the title. Maybe not always a good kind of attention, but what I realized when I put out that record, was me bearing more of my own personal vulnerabilities like dealing with depression and what I consider masochism.
Partly because this is what I choose to do with my life. I basically write about heartbreak. In order to put myself through this sort of scenario, I have to have a lot of love for what I do and I have to balance the amount of anguish that goes into it. Those were the kind of things I was coming out within that record. I was actually given more opportunities because of that record.
It was a way of opening up a door. I got so angry. I could feel that the air got sucked out of the room. It was that people were so gobsmacked. I threw that song in their face. Now, I do that song as an audience participation. It makes a huge difference. This is my own therapeutic experiment into it. It becomes a totally different thing when you are being heard saying it.
You are now dealing with the reaction of people from your commentary. This is something we miss a lot in social media. By the end of the song, there are two groups of people. One group of people is enthusiastic till the end of the song because they understand and they feel it is an empowering sentiment for themselves because of their own personal experience. A lot of my songwriting of late is more therapeutically driven.
I want them to understand why I think like I do. I want to understand them. I want them to listen to it here and I want them to answer my questions for themselves.
I want to create a space to discuss these questions. We need to move conversations forward. I was in high school when Columbine happened and it changed the way we did school. We were no longer allowed to wear trench coats to school for example. We were watched at the entrance, metal detectors were being used and school became much more imprisoning.
That was over 20 years ago and nothing has changed. When hate gets to a breaking point, it has taken the romanticism of violence to a whole another level. It has become intoxicating for these individuals. With the easy accessibility of guns, it makes it easy for these people to destroy other humans. Their intention is to essentially commit suicide.
They just want to do it as a grand gesture. This is happening in the United States specifically. I find him to be an amazingly fascinating person. Knowing his history as well and he is so educated, I love having conversations with him. He only speaks when he has something to say. It is fun to have those kinds of conversations with him because he will bring up things and say things that I have never thought of. He really understands humanity. If he likes the subject, he will talk about it.
He does what he wants to because he loves it. Can we talk about your background? My goal with this new record is to create a space to get those conversations started.
Whitmore first gained attention as a bassist, playing in the bands of singer-songwriters including Hayes Carll, Shelley King, Susan Gibson and Sunny Sweeney across the past two decades.
Along the way, she started making her own music. Whitmore still enjoys the supporting role, too. But these days, she has too much to say to stay in the shadows.
Also still weighing heavy on her mind was the loss of Austin musician Chris Porter, a former boyfriend who died in a highway crash on tour.
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