Singer-songwriters in recovery
On heartrending new song, David Haerle ponders a life lost to addiction
When alcoholism darkened the doorways of his family home, it spared singer-songwriter David Haerle. It found his father, who got sober in 1967. It claimed his mother, who would find recovery later in her life. And it wrapped its thorny tendrils around his brother, Christian, a brilliant man who died suddenly in 2019. A Los…
Read MoreOne of the best ‘Choices’ singer-songwriter Lucy Spraggan ever made: getting ‘Sober’
One minute in, you see it: her lip starts to quiver, and Lucy Spraggan fights to hold back a flood of tears. By minute 2, she struggles to get through the chorus — “I’ve had all the time I need to think it over, I’ve gotta be sober” — chest heaving, her face a rictus…
Read MoreSobriety gives singer-songwriter Travis Shallow ‘a pure sense of peace’
There may be other musicians who showed up to drug and alcohol rehab sporting their own name on a T-shirt, but singer-songwriter Travis Shallow still gets a chuckle when he recalls how unprepared he was for the beginning of his sobriety journey. Shallow, whose called the coast of North Carolina home for almost two decades…
Read MoreMental health, sobriety make up the titular topics of Kat Hamilton’s ‘Recovery Songs’
Courtesy of Nicolette Daskalakis In the hands of a capable and talented tunesmith, songwriting is elevated to high art. Words, phrases and stanzas are constructed in sumptuous layers of color and emotion, often delivered as a unique gift to the individual listener, their meanings dependent on each recipient’s life experiences. And then there are those…
Read MoreSerenity for Randall Bramblett means watering the roots of his sobriety
Courtesy of Ian McFarlane Throughout the 1970s, you could find Randall Bramblett at the forefront of some of the most adventurous rock ‘n’ roll endeavors in popular music. A Georgia boy who made a name for himself in the Athens scene, he was tapped by Gregg Allman to play as a sideman and session musician…
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