Ryan montbleau how many times

I need to do more with these moments Need do more with less time It's time to ease from concentration Into focus And there's a friend that I once knew And before his days were through He was dark and he was stormy But he could laugh at all the world I loved him Took it all in stride And though I laughed only outside I'd give my life to take the loneliness That he had to endure How many times?

Did I get to see my friend alive And think nothing of it? Did I look upon his face How many times? And though he's gone now I have this song now And I'll still get to sit here Remembering the lines And though I'm not yet under I can't help but wonder Will we get this chance again How many times?

Lyrics powered by www. Montbleau is quick to credit therapy for his growth of late, but he sings about more than just himself here, mixing sly humor and deep revelations as he meditates on the ties that bind all of us perfectly imperfect humans together. The only way for me to write about it was to just get as honest and vulnerable as I could. Along the way, Montbleau would share bills with stars like Tedeschi Trucks Band, Ani DiFranco, The Wood Brothers, Rodrigo y Gabriela, and Mavis Staples, but it was his ecstatic headline shows—often more than of them a year—that solidified his reputation as a roots rock powerhouse and an inexorable road warrior.

That positivity would serve Montbleau well on the long and winding road to Wood, Fire, Water, and Air. Work on the record first began in the summer of at the gorgeous Guilford Sound studio in southern Vermont, where Montbleau and producer Adam Landry Deer Tick, Rayland Baxter laid down basic tracks with a rotating cast of players.

At the time, Montbleau had little idea what he was getting himself into. For much of his career, Montbleau had worked fast and loose in the studio, capturing music as raw and organically as possible. This time around, though, he found himself craving a bolder, more fully realized sound, and by the time he finished basic tracking in Guilford, it was clear that his work had only just begun.

As the songs took shape, it became clear to Montbleau that there were discrete themes at work within the larger collection, both sonically and emotionally. Rather than release the entire track record all at once, then, he decided he would unveil the album more deliberately over the course of four separate EPs, each inspired by an element of the natural world.

First up: Wood , a rustic, earthy trio of tracks taking stock of just what it means to be human in these bewildering times. The arrival of Water quickly cools things down, though, bringing the music back to Earth with a more sober, meditative quality. As Wood, Fire, Water, and Air so beautifully demonstrates, sometimes the search is its own reward.