music and other soul cleaners

“What a lousy earth! He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were bullied, abused, or abandoned. How many families hungered for food they could not afford to buy? How many hearts were broken? How many suicides would take place that same night, how many people would go insane? How many cockroaches and landlords would triumph? How many winners were losers, successes failures, and rich men poor men? How many wise guys were stupid? How many happy endings were unhappy endings? How many honest men were liars, brave men cowards, loyal men traitors, how many sainted men were corrupt, how many people in positions of trust had sold their souls to bodyguards, how many had never had souls? How many straight-and-narrow paths were crooked paths? How many best families were worst families and how many good people were bad people? When you added them all up and then subtracted, you might be left with only the children, and perhaps with Albert Einstein and an old violinist or sculptor somewhere.” -Joseph Heller

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https://soundcloud.com/owen-ragland/red-rocking-chair

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https://soundcloud.com/owen-ragland/first-day-of-my-life-with-kathryn-baker

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https://soundcloud.com/owen-ragland/wait

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https://soundcloud.com/owen-ragland/nothing-to-say

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Sunday night fiddling👌. The song is quarter chicken dark by #YoYoMa #ChrisStile #StuartDuncan and #EdgarMeyer. Look it up, it will not disapoint. #fiddling #violin #quarterchickendark #shredding #goodevening #loop

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Hello toulumne county, come watch us play tonight at 8 at the gypsy shack #violin #BrothersStrong&Co #banjo #guitar #livemusic #newgrass #folk #standupbass #4partharmonies

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My cover of Valerie by Amy Whinehouse

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Classroom doodle of a sinking guy #intrinsicmotivation #ocean #water #sinking #bubbles #roughsketch #sketch #almostart

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Watch us shred this weekend! #livemusic #violin #guitar #banjo #standupbass #uprightbass #newgrass #folk

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I guess some of the Central Valley is kinda not terrible #scenic #floodedfields #nofilter #delta #california #centralvalley #roadtrip

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Finished my picture today #chalk #blackandwhiteprint #art #almostart #purplebuilding #reflection #autumn #fall #leaves #creek #bridge #photography #photo #almostarepost

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Having fun with chalk #workinprogress #blackandwhiteprint #coloring #chalk #art #reflection #fall

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If you're into that folk sound with clean harmonies

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Playing October fest with the brothers strong and Andrew! Watch the full video if you liked this http://youtu.be/Kg2nXR0iEw0 #orjustsearchthebrothersstrong#muiscmondays#fiddle#violin#guitar#banjo#standupbass#doublebass#troublewithtime#3partharmonies

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Love this song