Recovery Stories from the Music Industry

An interview series with musicians in recovery

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Now more than two decades sober, Foreigner’s Lou Gramm reflects on the dark days of his addiction

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Folk artist Steve Poltz finds sobriety is still ‘Ballin’,’ even after 14 years

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Singer-songwriter Dane Ferguson on sobriety: ‘Every day was another step in the right direction’

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Out of addiction’s flames, singer-songwriter Anders Osborne sets up a nationwide sober lifeline of ‘Friends’

The Ties That Bind Us

The Ties That Bind Us marks one year of telling rock ‘n’ roll recovery stories

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Singer-songwriter Amanda Bocchi: ‘I don’t focus on staying sober. I focus on living’

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Rich People frontman Rob Rich: With recovery, ‘the drugs don’t even matter anymore’

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Phil Bogard’s beautiful sobriety: Ingram Hill guitarist helps others return from the brink of death by alcoholism

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Bluesman Chris Beard: ‘There are no limits in my process of recovery … because I don’t put limits on myself’

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Killradio’s Brandon Jordan: ‘If you want to stay clean and sober … you have to believe in something’

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There and back again: Sister Hazel’s Ken Block finds life in recovery is always a ‘Beautiful Thing’

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D.I. guitarist, Rock to Recovery administrator Clinton Calton: Thanks to recovery’s promises, ‘I’m living the dream’

Why The Ties That Bind Us? It’s taken from literature from one of the 12 Step programs: “The ties that bind us together are stronger than those that would tear us apart.”

What about the 11th Tradition? “Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and film.” This is an important part of all 12 Step fellowships, which is why we won’t be identifying the specific fellowships, if any, to which our interview subjects belong. However, their discussion of their own recovery and sobriety, we feel, falls under the purview of “attraction,” and we’re honored they’ve agreed to allow us to tell their stories.

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