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This feels appropriate today, as new chapters unfold in real time. My therapist (if you don’t have one, get one. If you can’t, ask me and maybe I can help!) put me through an exercise which ended with these three cards characterizing my right now.
Anyone else ever done this? Was it helpful?

Time to leave the studio for a little bit and get back to playing in front of real human people!

Upcoming shows:
6/22: Bearwallow Bash - Ashland City, TN
7/10: Sofar NYC
7/11: Rockwood Music Hall
7/12: Sofar Philly

Thanks for making my life work, @ballardpritchett. You’ve taught me everything I know about how to be a good man, how to lead a well examined life, how to be in awe of the wind and the waves, and how not to look back when your hat gets swept off your head.

Join me and the band on Thursday night at the 5 spot. @kimiisthemost and @jessjocoymusic will be keeping us company!

Let’s make records

This is a #yamahaguitars FG 180 from 1970 that my dad gave me, and I’ve been playing it for nearly 20 years. It doesn’t have a pickup in it, and I’ve never played it at a show, but it was my first guitar, and it’s something I hope to pass along to my children someday.
I only recently found out that these guitars are pretty prized by modern aficionados.
I always loved the way it sounded, but I thought, “well it’s old and beat up and it’s not one of the great American standard manufacturers, so it’s probably not a really good guitar.” Don’t we all just do that so much? It feels like we’re always judging books by covers, and assuming that things aren’t good if they’re not prestigious, even though it’s one of the very first truisms we’re taught in grade school.
I’m lucky that I’ve got my dad’s old guitar to remind me.

I love being an artist and a producer at the same time. This year has taught me SO much about making music: the intersectionality of precision and inspiration, like a trust fall into a synchronized dive.
I love working in solitude, obsessing over details on Samuel Lee projects, but I’ve learned that I love working with others even more. Running and gunning with someone to reach an idea’s resolution is SO much fun, I might just do it forever.

Got to shoot my friends @wannabejimi and @madeleine.music at their show a couple of days ago. Here are some of my faves:

Can’t wait to see my Denver friends!!!

Coming atcha DENVER!
Headed home to play a full band show with @kimiisthemost on Friday night at the Marquis theater!

Samuel Lee

RT @jessphoenix2018: I'm so tired of the generation that benefited from every social program in the latter 20th century refusing to reti… https://t.co/myuitiXRq8
about a day ago