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Episode 19 – Show Notes

As one half of the instrumental duo Hammock, Marc Byrd has been crafting some of the most influential ambient music of the last 20 years. His songs have found their way into major films, the stunning Ricky Gervais Netflix show After Life, and many more amazing places. But prior to his current career in the post-rock vanguard, Byrd wrote one of the biggest worship songs of the last couple of decades (“God of Wonders,”) and got his start in the alternative Christian rock world. And all along he has been haunted by the lingering effects of abuse, addiction, and trauma. On this episode of the True Tunes Podcast, we engage in an extended conversation with a man who is learning how to listen to the sounds resonating deeply within his heart, soul, and mind, and is inviting us to do the same.

Official Hammock Website: https://www.hammockmusic.com/

Hammock Music Store: https://shop.hammockmusic.com/

Hammock’s Label: https://hammockmusic.bandcamp.com/

 

Recommended Reading:

Into the Silent Land by Martin Laird

The Idea of the Holy: An Inquiry Into the Non-rational Factor in the Idea of the Divine and Its Relation to the Rational by Rudolf Otto

Reflections on the Unknowable by Father Thomas Keating

The Daily Reader for Contemplative Living: Excerpts from the Works of Father Thomas Keating

 

Help for Addiction Recovery

 

First suggestion: Contact someone you know personally who is currently involved in recovery. Seriously, if you have a friend or family member who is involved in a program, reach out. This is the best first step.

 

If you are not sure whether or not you have a problem, this page offers 12 questions to ask yourself that might help you. (Substitute the word “alcohol” for whatever your primary medicator might be.) https://alcoholics-anonymous.eu/new-to-aa/12-questions/

 

For a schedule of in-person and/or virtual 12 step meetings, search online for local AA, NA, or Al-Anon central office and look for a meeting schedule. Meetings happen all over, and at lots of different times. You’ll be surprised when you look this up. There will almost certainly be a meeting you can join. Plus now there are online meetings available.

 

For Mindfulness-based recovery visit https://refugerecovery.org

 

Recommended Recovery Reading:

Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-Deception by Abraham J. Twerski, M.D.

Understanding the Twelve Steps: An Interpretation and Guide for Recovering People: by Terence T. Gorski

12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery and

12 Smart Things To Do When the Booze and the Drugs Are Gone—both books by Allen Berger, Ph.D.

Breathing Underwater: Spirituality and the 12 Steps by Richard Rohr

Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions by Russell Brand

Episode 19 Music Playlist: 

Hammock Songs – (You can purchase Hammock’s ENTIRE catalog (over 24 releases) in digital form for $100 (or more) from their BANDCAMP site!)

Together Alone (from Departure Songs)

Marathon Boy (from Everything and Nothing)

Razorback Drug Town (from Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow)

West (from North, West, East, South EP)

Things of Beauty Born (from Mysterium)

Madi (from Into the Blank / Madi)

Tape Recorder (from Mysterium)

Dissonance (from Everything and Nothing)

Miles to Go Before Sleep (from Kenotic)

Before We Were Born (from The Sleepover Series, Volume Two [Bonus Track])

Shipwrecked (Flat on your back) (from Raising Your Voice… Trying To Stop An Echo)

God of Wonders (from GlassByrd – Open Wide This Window)

You Lost the Starlight In Your Eyes (from Chasing After Shadows… Living With The Ghosts)

From the Dust… We Ran to Greet the Dawn (from Chasing After Shadows… Living With The Ghosts)

Alys (from Raising Your Voice… Trying To Stop An Echo [Bonus Track])

Hope Becomes a Loss (from Oblivion Hymns)

Sinking Inside Yourself (from Hammock – EP’s, Singles and Remixes)

Parkers Chapel (from Hammock – EP’s, Singles and Remixes)

No Agenda (Featuring Steve Kilbey of The Church) (from Hammock – EP’s, Singles and Remixes)

City in the Dust on My Window (from Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow)

For My Sister (from Mysterium)

Tremendum (from Universalis)

We Try to Make Sense of It All (from Silencia)

Longest Year (from Hammock – EP’s, Singles and Remixes)

Lights Will Draw You Back (from Everything and Nothing)

Birds Flying In Sequence (from Stranded Under Endless Sky)

 

VISION TRUST: www.VisionTrust.org

Psalm 18:18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity, But the Lord was my stay.