29 January 2021
If you’ve been to a Langhorne Slim live show, you know it’s a rowdy, lively time. Whether on his own or with the help of a band, singer-songwriter Sean Scolnick careens between songs and stories, telling tales of his times meeting the most random people at bars and then spinning yarns about his wild and colorful upbringing. These are the kinds of anecdotes that could fill multi-volume autobiographies, but instead, Scolnick keeps writing heartfelt and deeply personal songs about his experiences.
At least, until he didn’t anymore.
Following the release of 2017’s
Lost at Last Vol. 1, Scolnick’s inner demons were getting the best of him, eating away at his muse and forcing addictions back into his life. After a long period of feeling creatively drained and friends not recognizing him anymore, he finally checked into rehab.
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Me & My Guitar, a new compilation album created by Charlie Overbey to benefit NIVA’s Save Our Stages, is out today exclusively via Bandcamp. Purchase HERE. In addition to Overbey, the album features 25 acoustic tracks only available here by Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Chris Vos (The Record Company), Charlie Starr (Blackberry Smoke), Marcus King, Adam Slack (The Struts), Micah Nelson aka “Particle Kid,” Duane Betts, Suzanne Santo, Jesse Malin, Sam Morrow, Langhorne Slim and Pete Anderson along with a dozen other Americana favorites.
Of the project, Overbey shares, “I am hoping that not only will this album help raise awareness of the financial severity facing all venue owners, bar staff, stage crew & touring musicians, it will also give the listener a badly needed break in their day to listen to over an hour’s worth of calming and heartfelt music coming straight f
After getting help with his addiction and while pausing for the pandemic, Langhorne Slim found songs happy, sad, anxious, joyful to be pouring out of him like deep breaths.