Been a fan of Ben Rector for a long time – He has a way of tapping into something underneath the surface in many of his songs, combined with a felicity of composition.
In this add-on release to his latest album “Richest Man in the World” (an album which, to my listening, moves in a different direction for him), he explores the often unspoken reality of the “unknown” inherent to the act of creating. It partly reminds me of Theodore Roosevelt’s famous excerpt “The Man in the Arena” and seems drawn from Rector’s own experience and stage in life.
I hope you enjoy it and it helps you get underneath the surface of life in an enlightening way too:
(Bonus: I hadn’t realized, or had forgotten, Roosevelt’s quote came from a longer speech he gave entitled “Citizenship in a Republic” at the Sorbonne in Paris on April 23, 1910. I was reading for the first time as I put this post together, and found myself spinning from many of his reflections in that speech. Well worth the read.)