tant songs. I just try to write some-
thing that is honest and comes
from a place deeper than the
surface level that we skate on ev-
ery day in our social lives. I usu-
ally have to write a song or two
before I get down beneath the
surface of what I’m trying to say.
I may have to write some really
bad songs before I stumble upon
the one that might make a record-
ing six months or a year later. I will
say the song that has become the
most important to other people
is ‘Even When I’m Gone’ from
‘Purgatory Road.’ Enough people
have come up to me after shows
and said they know that song was
made just for them, that it reminds
them of someone they loved who
died. Or a relationship that ended.
Just these ultra-personal pieces
of people’s lives. And somehow a
two-minute song I wrote hits that
spot inside of them. It makes me
feel connected to something be-
yond just trying to sing my person-
al issues in public. It connects it to
the blues, a larger blues that live in
every one of us.
Watch a video for “Even When I’m Gone” by Jackson Pines
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