Langhorne Slim and Oliver Wood at Space

Name: Langhorne Slim and Oliver Wood at Space
Start: 2024-05-20T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Evanston SPACE

Schedule

Mon May 20 2024 at 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Evanston SPACE | Evanston, IL

Langhorne Slim didnt write a song for more than a year. A battle with clinical anxiety disorder and prescription drug abuse, which came to a head in 2019, had dimmed the light within. The man who once seemed to ooze spontaneity was now creatively adrift, stumbling along in the fog.In December, he entered a program and, for the first time in a long time, a path toward healing began to emerge. He began to see that inner peace was possible, even with the world outside raging.A few months later, in February, a tornado came and decimated East Nashville, his adopted hometown. Covid-19 took root just days later, changing lives forever. In the early days of his recovery, a different reality was beginning to take shape, both within and without. New worlds were being born; old worlds were dying.Knowing he was struggling to write songs and make sense of it all, Slim was finally able to flesh out a throwaway ditty one afternoon. His close friend Mike then suggested he try penning a song a day. Slim didnt like the idea, but he gave it a shot.To his surprise, the songs came. In a flurry of stream-of-consciousness writing, the new tunes tumbled out, one after another, like little starbursts of joy, gifts from the gods you might say. Slim was tuning out the noise and finding beauty in the madness of a world coming undone. Over the course of a couple of months from March to May, Slim penned more than twenty that were certified keepers. Out of this bumper crop came the songs that make up his new album, Strawberry Mansion, which is being released this winter on Dualtone Records.I wasnt sitting on the songs and I wasnt overthinking them, Slim says of the writing process of those months. Something cracked open with the slowing down and the stillness of quarantine.After finishing a song, whether he liked the tune or not, hed call Mike, a videographer, and theyd record it and post it to Instagram. It was a form of therapy, he now realizes. There was nothing precious about the process and it was a bonding thing between me and Mike as much as anything else, Slim says. It also gave me a release and maybe some potential form of healing, and was an opportunity to not always listen to the shitty thoughts in my head. I wasnt ever thinking that I was writing songs for a new record.
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Oliver Wood is a mainstay of modern-day American roots music. The frontman of the Wood Brothers since 2004, hes spent the 21st century blurring the boundaries between folk, gospel, country-soul, and Americana, earning an international audience and a Grammy Award-nomination along the way. Always Smilin, his debut as a solo artist, continues that tradition while also shining new light on Olivers sharp songwriting, savvy guitar chops, and a voice that evokes the swagger of a Saturday evening picking party one moment and the solemnity of a Sunday morning gospel service the next.
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