Few artists have committed to the ethic of apocalyptic – even gothic – Americana as completely as Colorado’s David Eugene Edwards. From his early work with The Denver Gentlemen and 16 Horsepower to the last two decades of material he has offered via Wovenhand, Edwards practically haunts every stage, and album, with spirits that are simultaneously spectral and Biblical. On this episode of the True Tunes Podcast, John J. Thompson sits down with Edwards in front of a live audience at the Audiofeed Festival in Champaign, Illinois to talk about his origins, his musical concepts, and his mystical perspectives on everything from the nature of art and humanity to the essence of spirituality and redemption.
Then we crank up the jukebox to hear some other seminal apocalyptic music – and consider the value and purpose of provocative art in general. What is it that is being hidden, revealed, discovered, or avoided, when we drop the needle these days?
Full Show Notes and a special Apocalypse Rocks Playlist are available HERE or at TrueTunes.com/Wovenhand
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Singing Along with The Choir
Renaissance Man Jimmy Abegg (+ Peter Gabriel & Lowland Hum on the Jukebox)
Amy Grant‘s Secret: 2 Jobs & A Prayer
Natalie Bergman’s Jesus Music for a New Generation
Taylor Leonhardt Learns a Language REMIX (+Tapestry, Wrecking Ball, 1,000 Kisses & Raising Sand on the Jukebox)
Rich Mullins: The Lost Interview Pt 2 (Rich + McVicker, Madeira & Webb + Andrew Peterson on the Jukebox)
Rich Mullins: The Lost Interview Pt. 1 (The Ragamuffins Set The Stage)
Phil Madeira (Part 2 of 2) Jazz, Scapegoats, & Resolution
Phil Madeira (Part 1 of 2) Deep Roots & Expanding Horizons
Kevin Max: Considering Boundaries + Mark Heard’s ”Dry Bones Dance”
Jukebox Takeover #3: 20 Great Albums of 2020
Jukebox Takeover #2 The Christmas Music of Over The Rhine (Making Space for Beauty and Grace)
Marc Byrd ”Hidden” BONUS Episode w Marc Byrd: (Hammock Live, Theology, and TT Patreon Launch)
Marc Byrd: Hammock, God of Wonders, & Hearing the Beauty Beyond the Noise
Larry Norman & his son Mike; It’s Complicated…
The Electric Jesus Story (So Far...) w Brian Baumgartner, Chris White, & Daniel Smith: [The Beauty of Failure and Art Vs. Propaganda]
Buddy Miller: Learning To Listen with Big Ears
Ella Mine and the Beauty, Purpose, and Potential of Darkness and Pain in Art
More Musical Adulting w Waterdeep, Living Artfully in Tandem (Part 2 of 2)
Music for Adults w Waterdeep + Buddy & Julie Miller on the Jukebox (Part 1 of 2)
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