Are you doing your part this holiday season?
Artist of the Dayt: The Wood Brothers
It's Christmas week, and I figured I would change things up a little bit from the normal routine and just kinda have a heart to heart with you.
Alright, is that cool? I'm gonna do my best to spare you from the whole idea of this has been an incredibly hard here, and all this kind of stuff because we already know all that, and I think we're hearing that enough right now, but within the same parameters, I wanna talk about maybe something a little bit more action driven as in, what are you doing right now to make someone's life better during the holidays, there are a lot of people out there that are not going home because of this pandemic, and I think it's really important for us as artists to reach out and connect to someone in our community and make sure that they know that they're loved. A simple phone call or a FaceTime message would really go a long way for people right now, and it's our job to stick together, so... What are you doing? Have you called anybody today, I actually wanna take a big step and say, Don't text them this information, because text is like something that we get a thousand times a day, call them, or even better if they have face time or something of that manner, like a Zoom or whatever, get on something where you can see their face and ou can tell them face to face that you love them, appreciate them, and that you hope that they're having a good holiday, and if they're not...
Be there to listen to them. I can only speak for my own life, but in my own life over the last few months, I've been doing this a lot more, and I feel like my friendships have grown infinitely more just because I'm making myself available to listen to someone during this time. Acquaintances have become friends, and friends have become even closer friends, so take a step by your comfort zone and pick up the phone and FaceTime someone, or even me, and just say, Hey, I hope you're doing well. Tell me how you're doing. I know that when people reach out to me and they do these types of things, it makes me feel really good that somebody really cares, and it's Christmas week, we should care. So no fancy music news this week, no fancy guitar lessons or anything of that sort. Just call somebody and tell them that you love them. And check in on them and see how they're doing. I'm wishing your holiday to be all the best that it can be in a time like this, but... Yeah, thank you for everything this year. It's been amazing. All right, everybody, well, I'll see you next time.
The album I've been listening to this week the most has been Kingdom in My Mind by The Wood Brothers, and that first song, Alabaster, gets me every single time.