Buying A Record=Saving A Life
You are cordially invited to the Classic City of Athens, GA tomorrow night for the "Buy A Record Save A Life" clean water benefit show at the historic (and dare I say, beautiful) Seney-Stovall Chapel next to the Varsity on Milledge Ave. It's a free, all-ages, show and music begins at 7pm.
Music by whom? Well, I'll be playing some solo stuff (no Warm Fuzzies tonight... not that we don't support clean water you know) and acting as the emcee, but the real good stuff is from The Goodfight, Leaving Araby, PilotCoat, and the Wellreds.
The last record we put the Rebuilt logo on was The Goodfight's double EP, Good & Evil, and that was somewhat poetic. Even during Rebuilt's best times, I was never sure how I felt about the intersection of art, faith, and charity. What I mean is that being a musician on a professional level forces you to spend a ton of focus on yourself, and while we talk a lot about hoping music has an impact on culture and helps to change lives, what we end up doing is trying to get people to shows and get songs on Grey's Anatomy. It's a systemic problem, I think. It's hard to get outside yourself when you're constantly struggling to make your own ends meet.
I think that's one reason why I don't run the label anymore. It's also why I'm really thankful for Jonathan's TheGoodfight10000 project. I certainly have no problem with artists being entertainers; if you can sell songs, records, or tickets for a living, that's awesome. But with the TGF10000, there is something that resonates a little more closely my own views of an artist's role in culture (and of vocational ministry, etc), and I'm glad to be a part of it.
Simply put, The Goodfight hopes to sell 10,000 copies of it's really good double EP, Good & Evil, and give all of money (yep - 100%) to CharityWater, and organization that helps provide clean water to the nearly 1 billion people on the planet who don't have it.
Music is what we have to share and to give, and we'd like to share and give it to you tomorrow night at the Seney-Stovall Chapel. And by doing so, you can give thirsty people something clean to drink. And in addition, if you guy The Goodfight's Good & Evil double EP or make a donation to clean water, you can have my records for free.
Check out the video we shot for a brief synopsis, and head on over to BuyARecordSaveALife.com and check it out.
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