Check out the vulnerable and striking new single “The Day I Started Using Again,” from Charlottesville based alternative folk group Hadnot Creek. A song with lyrical and poetic charm to boot, lead singer Robert Sawrey croons with genuine emotional depth, possessing a voice that speaks from palpable experience and learned wisdom. With restrained and mature instrumentation, “The Day I Started Using Again,” is a folk ballad void of pretension that cuts straight to the core of what makes Americana music great: honest and unguarded reflection of one’s self and their surroundings.
“I wrote this song one cold winter’s morning after hearing that a family friend had died from an overdose. A few short months earlier, I’d learned someone else in my past had overdosed as well. That person was going into rehab the next day. They were not the first people I’d known who had died from their addictions but hopefully the last. I was just trying to give them a voice, make them a little more human instead of being a grim faceless statistic. One more note, Zach Samel, wrote the music to this song and played rhythm guitar. My good friend, Lee Sargent, was kind enough to add the lead guitar part.
