Joshua falls into a fountain and finds the universal source of inspiration. It’s a song about picking up the pieces (and invisible rattling charms from the ether).
After a terminal diagnosis, Dan sells his house, buys a Winnebago, and plans out spending his last days. It’s a song about living and dying—and the joy and pain in both.
A hospital gets one beautiful death per year. Steve gets a note from James Gandolfini. A ski shop gets a new employee of the month. It’s a prayer about the lonely, lovely journey of life.
From a televangelist’s theme park to a mental hospital, Chris is on a rollercoaster as his mother slowly blurs the line between devotion and madness. It’s a song about faith…or delusion.
Lawrence tries to run away from home and rejection but ends up in El Paso and drug addiction. Rehab is a ranch in Texas where he finds the truth in a circle of lies. It’s a song about self acceptance.
Mike is living aimlessly until, on a whim, he joins the U.S. Navy. Along the way he gets a surprise haircut and a new personality. It’s a song about transformation.
Pat likes to party. It’s not a problem…until it is, and he starts using more drugs to numb the pain of his brothers passing. It’s a song about redemption.
Angela finds a mysterious man upstairs in her house. He’s looking for Kevin. It’s a song about strange encounters.
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About A Life In Song with Clem Snide
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A Life In Song is born of the idea that everybody has a story to tell, and everyone deserves a song. Each episode begins with an ordinary person sharing an incredible, heartbreaking, and often…
life-changing experience, and culminates with an original song written and performed by long time indie fave Clem Snide. Hear about Lawrence's escape from a cult in the middle of West Texas, Mike’s first sleepless night after impulsively joining the Navy, and Chris' experience homeschooling in Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s basement after his mom’s nervous breakdown. All this plus anecdotal evidence that miraculous healing is possible and that our souls live on forever. Listen to a new episode of A Life In Song with Clem Snide every Thursday starting May 26th wherever you get your podcasts, and submit a story of your own at ALIFEINSONG.COM.