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On Episode 115, I'm joined by singer-songwriter Justin Wells, who is releasing The United State this Friday, August 28. Wells leads us through various watershed snapshot moments during life that we all experience and share. During these innate moments, Wells explores the multitude of emotions that often come hand in hand with them. He balances the carefully orchestrated details with broad themes about joy, sorrow, pain, fear, hope, love, and lonesomeness. Songs walk a delicate line as they balance both a sense of the raw, fresh present and the calm wisdom and hindsight of memory and reflection. Wells acknowledges the rushes of vibrant emotions we all know and taps into the unexplainable strangeness of things we rarely talk about. There is an intense beauty and layers of fear, loneliness, confusion, and reassurance in songs like the lead single "The Screaming Song," which kicks off The United State and comes once more during the closing moments of "The Bridge."

This episode's presenting partner is Desert Door Texas Sotol and The Blue Light Live.

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