Posts by Steve Wildsmith
Sobriety gives producer, musician Stefan T a high no drug could ever touch
It all came to a head for Stefan Tisminezky, the artist known as Stefan T, in the parking lot of a job he was on the verge of losing, along with his sanity and possibly his life. The night before, he told The Ties That Bind Us recently, he’d met up with former co-workers at…
Read MoreDelivered by grace: In sobriety, Jon Foulk sings ‘A New Song’
Within the span of a week, singer-songwriter and sideman Jon Foulk went from the lowest of addiction’s lows to the highest of spiritual highs. It was early 2016 when, after numerous times through addiction treatment gave him a glimmer of hope only to have it dashed by an ensuing relapse, that he found himself at…
Read MoreFrom sadness to hope: The sober paradigm shift of Hand Drawn Maps
Hand Drawn Maps is Stewart Crichton (left) and Blake Baldwin. For years after they lost touch, Blake Baldwin would hear the stories about his childhood friend, Stewart Crichton. The two — who make up the band Hand Drawn Maps — had grown up together in the South Bay area of Los Angeles, bonded over music…
Read MoreMusic, hope, sobriety: Park City Song Summit is a week of musical healing
Ben Anderson, organizer of the Park City Song Summit Meet the new festival, most definitely not the same as the old festival. When the Park City Song Summit debuts on Sept. 8, it will bear some resemblances to its 2019 predecessor, 2019’s Park City Songwriter Festival, a two-day event spotlighting music but that also featured…
Read MoreAlready a whirlwind, cosmic rocker Idgy Dean gets supercharged by sobriety
Courtesy of Jordan Kleinman It’s not exactly accurate to credit Trent Reznor with creating Idgy Dean any more than it is to lay the fault of her addiction at the feet of Aphex Twin, but both artists had a part to play in the journey of Lindsay Sanwald. For the sake of clarity: Idgy Dean…
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