Deadsplinter Up! All Night: A Prayer For The Sane


Carrie Elkin and Danny Schmidt, House Concert at the McGees!

I know in the past I’ve shared folk songs from my lovely and talented friends Carrie Elkin and Danny Schmidt. They are Austin based singer-songwriters. (Full disclosure – Carrie and I went to school together – she played a mean game of soccer.)

Danny has a new song out, so I wanted to share a few songs and introduce you all properly.


I mean, how adorable are they?


Then they had a cute little baby. It was a lot of work! (CW: Fertility, Miscarriage)


Did you guys know Math was sexy?


This one is for all of you who stick to sticking with it:


Apropos for Easter weekend:


From Danny with regards to his new song, A Prayer For The Sane:

I wrote and recorded this song exactly one month ago. It’s hard to wrap my brain around how much our consciousness has shifted in twenty eight days. I wrote the song about our political environment, about the cognitive dissonance in the orbits of our worldviews, and about the emotional and intellectual fatigue we’ve all suffered for the last three years.

We’re fast approaching an inflection point, and we can’t begin to restore a sense of common purpose until our collective conversation is informed by honesty, transparency, and factual reality again. And we must be led by someone who honors the truth, and respects those on the other side of it. Only then can we return to civility and decency. And public health.

This isn’t a song about resolving dispute. It’s a song about coming back to the table together, and all of us acknowledging that a table has four legs and a surface that’s solid (and painful when you smack your head against it.)

THANK Y’ALL!
 
Carrie and I loved playing the online concert with y’all last Saturday. Watching our community gather virtually from around the world was incredibly heartening! Please please please stay safe and healthy and sane, and vigilant so that we can all get through this with as little loss as possible. 
 
All the best —
Danny

Listen or Download:
https://bit.ly/APrayerForTheSaneDownload

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:  
http://www.dannyschmidt.com
http://carrieelkin.com/
You can find Carrie and Danny on Facebook, Spotify, Twitter etc. . . and then please share it with your friends.

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