Singer-songwriters in recovery
Let the ‘Good Times’ roll: Through sobriety, singer-songwriter Glenn Jones rediscovers his muse
Singer-songwriter Glenn Jones spent a good chunk of his young adulthood touring the country, playing rock ‘n’ roll and giving full-time music his best efforts, and while he may have overindulged on occasion, alcohol was never a problem. Even after he got married in his late 20s, embraced the corporate life and relegated music to…
Read MoreSinger-songwriter Joe Nester builds a ‘Nation’ through music, recovery
The benefits of a life in recovery still blow Joe Nester’s mind on occasion. There was once a time in his life when, addicted to crack and heroin, he was homeless, sleeping under bridges and using Boston Market cardboard boxes for a bed. He was one of the nameless, faceless afflicted that populate the streets…
Read MoreThe artist known as C4 on her recovery: ‘I like this road, so I’m staying on it’
As a girl, Cecilia Ebrahimi, the artist known as C4, traveled the world. Raised on a horse farm in Maryland, she spent part of her childhood in Iran, the country of her father’s birth. Thanks to his work and the family’s wealth, summers were spent in tropical locales — on a boat off the coast…
Read MoreThrough sobriety, singer-songwriter Griffin House finds his ‘Star’ is on the rise
When you’re a struggling singer-songwriter, balance in any area of life can be difficult to come by. Nashville’s Griffin House is no different. He’s striven for balance ever since he came to Music City, when a set of circumstances set him up with a Nettwerk Records deal and led to meeting three of his heroes…
Read MoreOn the other side of addiction and depression, Jedd Hughes casts his eyes ‘West’
Courtesy of Libby Danforth These days, with several years of sobriety under his belt, Jedd Hughes lives in the light. There’s plenty of it to go around: Playing as part of country superstar Vince Gill’s band, for example, or his own career as a singer-songwriter that gets a bump when he releases a new solo…
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