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SUMMARY:Langhorne Slim @ Higher Ground
DESCRIPTION:The Point Welcomes: \nLanghorne Slim \nA Tour de Point Show\n \n  \nWednesday\, October 5   Doors: 7 PM / Show: 7:30 PM \nHigher Ground | South Burlington\, VT \n– Tickets and Event Info – \n\n  \nLanghorne Slim didn’t 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. \nIn 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. \nA 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. \nKnowing 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 didn’t like the idea\, but he gave it a shot. \nTo 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. \n“I wasn’t sitting on the songs and I wasn’t overthinking them\,” Slim says of the writing process of those months. “Something cracked open with the slowing down and the stillness of quarantine. \nAfter finishing a song\, whether he liked the tune or not\, he’d call Mike\, a videographer\, and they’d 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 wasn’t ever thinking that I was writing songs for a new record.” \nPrior to this creative outburst\, Slim’s anxiety had grown so acute there were times when he actually feared picking up his guitar and trying to write. With the help of therapy and friends\, he was now learning to confront his demons rather than run from them. So\, in the midst of a panic attack one day\, he picked up his guitar and the song “Panic Attack” was born. It’s a raw\, off-the-cuff number that rises above the dark subject matter with spirit\, irony and humor. “I called a healthcare professional/ Wanna speak to someone confidentially/ Don’t know just how I’m feelin’/ But I’m feelin’ feelings exponentially\,” he sings.
URL:https://pointfm.com/events/langhorne-slim-higher-ground/
LOCATION:Higher Ground
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