Jumping rope, listening to great song after great song; thinking about these last shows, and what comes next. I’ll be in Leavenworth this weekend singing with The Staxx Brothers, celebrating. You can join me.
It’s been quite a year. I was reminded that a year ago I wrote a song at a 502, covered in weed trimmings singing about how Trump couldn’t ruin My Favorite Year. Now I am budtending at 2 different shops not even recognizing myself, except in flashbacks. Of the nineteen nineties.
Oh things are pretty messed up. I hardly recognize my own country in 2018.
Fascism in America is simply awful. A tragedy from sea to shining sea. A 50 state pile up on an icy road. So it’s time to be ready. Ready for anything. We’re slipping down that slippery slope.
So be ready. For anyyyyythang. Right now I just want to be ready to rock these sets like they are the last ones. Because you never know.
The world is so big and small. Too often I miss the moment trying to be the moment. I manufacture them.
Life changes. We try to make sense out of it, hoping to a God that won’t answer us and may not even exist, when this all might be senseless. Forever changes. What seemed so important to you this year might seem silly the next.
Big and small. We rise and we fall. We genuinely believe destiny calls. Just to make sense of it all. Because it just might mean something quite extraordinary after all.
That’s what songs are to me. Creating some sort of beautiful order in chaos, with this parlor trick, where we vibrate the air you breath just right so we share the same moment in space and time, with rhythms and rhyme.
Music can save us from that chaos with its illusions, and give us shelter from the storm that would otherwise consume us. It’s our miracle drug.
That is if you get down with music like that mate.
That’s why I’m still crazy about writing songs eerrryday. And I just might have a fighting chance to record some of the best ones this next year.
It might not even matter how good those songs are. I can accept that. But I can’t accept not trying to find out. Because it’s an adventure. A comic book adventure with heroes and villains, where all these magicians have superpowers and fantastic machines.
This next year I am taking more chances. Calculated risks. Like swinging for the fences again on the very first pitch.
Davin’s new song has become a global earworm and Caribbean dancehall hit. Listen here on Reggaeville: DAVIN MICHAEL STEDMAN & ANTHONY RED ROSE – FREE YOUR MIND FEAT. SLY & ROBBIE WITH LENKY MARSDEN. The video is now available on Youtube.
– Musician and writer Davin Michael Stedman has many ventures, such as the AMAZING blog, 100milesofmusic.com, and is one of the driving forces behind the Staxx Brothers. This past spring he spent weeks networking in and reporting from Kingston, Jamaica. He will return there soon for more recording. His single with British band Sherlock Soul is now available as well.
