"You need to leave enough space in your songs so that people can put themselves in there. True songwriting... moving forward, being human, is to evoke those emotions that are human. We need to see ourselves in others."
-Tim Enright on musician David Gray
Tim Enright is an accomplished musician who attributes his love for music to his first 45 record, House of the Rising Sun, a gift from his grandmother at around 4-5 years old. Shortly thereafter he began taking guitar lessons, kind of on a fluke, and it's been a long-running love affair ever since.
What I didn't know until the interview is that Tim is a graduate from Ball State University where he pursued and obtained a degree in journalism. He has written for several small publications including the Goshen Press. He comes from a family of both musicians and journalists, notably an uncle, Jerry Roberts (San Fransisco Chronicle) who's foray into pushing against corporate interference in media was the subject of the documentary Citizen McCaw.
He also has an Uncle, Pat Enright, who is a Grammy award-winning bluegrass musician and member of the Nashville Bluegrass Band. His Uncle Pat's voice was featured in the movie "Oh Brother Where Art Thou"
Tim’s going to play some of his music for us (which I’m a HUGE fan of), and we’ll talk a great deal about music; but also of life, artistic influencers, manufactured division among human interaction, and the nuanced awakening that we are indeed all one. ALL OF US, human and non-human, animate and inanimate, liberal and conservative, man and woman, black and white (I’m thinking of Alan Watts’ lecture of how black and white flow in concert with one another, like a canoe with the river).
I could go on and on, because talking about Tim is like watching your own heart grow and warm 10 times over, but listening to him speak is a far better accord and I don’t want to spoil things for you.
Useful Links/Video Resources:
Citizen McCaw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJhL2TwJGuA)
Timothy Leary -- The Man Who Turned On America (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6jmGSS955g)
Timothy Leary - Find the Others: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWplcUlQfFU&t=89s)
Obadiah Parker - Hey Ya Cover (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c745E7T_Wvg)
Connect with Tim on Spotify:
Tim Enright (https://open.spotify.com/artist/7kSPTCQb3tfEG7HJdbAuR0)
T.S. Enright (https://open.spotify.com/artist/6rKT3Cwd9pFX0XduMuAgcD)
Intro Music:
Billy and Joseph
Outro Music:
The Empty Sky
Outro Music:
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Tim Enright - Musician/Journalist Unplugged: House of the Rising Sun