Immersion Therapy David Dondero

• 1 Recipe To Be Lonely 02:52
• 2 After The Pandemic 03:54
• 3 Immersion Therapy 02:15
• 4 You Need Your Space 03:53
• 5 Wrinkles Of Your Mind 03:13
• 6 Sandsculpture Tombstone 04:10
• 7 Monarch Highway 04:09
• 8 I Followed My Heart 04:28
• 9 At Least: Not Alone 03:00
• 10 Nacre Pericardium 04:42
• Total Runtime 36:36

Info for Immersion Therapy

Immersion in nature or immersion in something that produces anxiety for therapy. Immersion in music or immersion in crowds full of strangers. This immersive pathway can flood your mind and force a reset or an internal confrontation. What makes you panic? What makes you depressed? What brings you into the light of love and happiness? Are you lost within’ the wrinkles of your mind? Hiding inside yourself with extreme social anxiety? Did the man at the bowling alley just smile and calmly spray the shoes with a disinfectant? Have you unraveled all the way? Spun out into oblivion? Crushed by your own broken heart and the dozens that surround you. Has it made you want to escape to the outer reaches? You need your space and you like to be alone now. It’s better than being with people. People don’t call you back. They don’t follow through. You did an experiment to see if anybody would get in touch with you. There were only 2. You’ve got to do the dialing, otherwise, it’s a recipe to be lonely. It was self-inflicted. Did you enjoy the loneliness of the pandemic? Being forced into desolation when you were that way all along. After the pandemic, we will get together again. Does that idea horrify you? Have you followed your heart and realized it took you down the darkest alley. Is the tombstone really a sand sculpture being washed into the sea? I’ve got to pay one last respect before the tide rolls in. Remember the people. Remember all of them who died as the whole world cried. Was it only crocodile tears that monarch butterflies drink from? They needed the sodium chloride. But the people only cried a little and then forgot about it. Like it never even happened. I drove the casket back to Kansas City to the final resting place. I was the pallbearer.

David Dondero, vocals, guitars, synthesizers, drum programming, percussion, harmonica
Juniana Lanning, drums, percussion, vocals
John Shepski, bass, piano, Wurlitzer, glockenspiel
Patrick B Spurgeon, drums
Paul Brainard, string arrangement, pedal steel guitar
Anna Tivel, violin
Skip VonKuske, cello
Nick Clark, harmonica
Daren Hanlon, spoken word

David Dondero
is an American singer/songwriter. In 2006, NPR's All Songs Considered named Dondero one of the "best living songwriters" alongside Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and Tom Waits. Dondero's career began in the mid-1990's with the release of four records with Clemson, SC-based punk band Sunbrain- three on Grass Records and one on Ghostmeat Records. In 1997, Dondero joined This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb as their drummer. He left in 1998 to focus on solo material which was more folk in nature. He has since released eight albums - two on Ghostmeat (see below), three on Future Farmer Records and three on Conor Oberst's Team Love imprint. His ninth album, titled A Pre-existing Condition, will be released February 22, 2011 on Ghosmeat. Dondero is perpetually on tour and has shared the stage with such acts as Crooked Fingers, Jolie Holland, Against Me!, The Mountain Goats, Preston School Of Industry, Bright Eyes, Tilly and the Wall, Spoon and Willy Mason.

A Pre-existing Condition was recorded just outside Athens, GA with Rob Keller (Six String Drag) on upright bass and backing vocals, William Tonks (Bloodkin) on dobro and guitar and Russ Hallauer (Sunbrain) on mandolin and tenor banjo. The album distinguishes itself from other recent Dondero releases with exclusive use of acoustic instruments and extensive use of vocal harmony. Clay Leverett (Now It's Overhead) and Ken Will Morton also make guest appearances with backing vocals and harmonica respectively. The 13-track album features original compositions side by side with Dondero's interpretations of songs by artists such as Little Feat, Elizabeth Cotten, Charlie Pride, Neil Young, Woody Guthrie, Doug Sahm, Jawbreaker, Bob Dylan and Jimmie Rodgers.

"This is the sound of a man on fire. Smart, funny and honestly out of his mind; but he comes back long enough to sing about it. One of the best singer/songwriters I've ever heard." - Bob Boilen, NPR

"Dondero is this generation's Townes Van Zandt, a peripatetic tumbleweed casting across the country's highways and dirt roads searching for truth and love. His reedy tenor shuffles through clever verbal forays, over raga-muffin folk, brightened by Dondero's road-wizened stoicism" - Houston Chronicle

"He has a terrific ear and eye for simple detail, for spinning songs out of the mundane just as deftly as standards like love and loss." - David Bevan, Pitchfork

"His songs capture places in detail, but also the feeling that life can be about grabbing a hold of the wind (or of a song, as he sometimes phrases it) and seeing where it takes you." - Dave Headon, Pop Matters

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