Wangaratta, Victoria, 2023

Its nice to hear a song you had never heard of before and be moved by it. You may discover it by a fluke like I did, or perhaps someone sends you a link; whatever the method, you’re changed. Every now and then there’s a song that comes along at a time in your life when you’re most ready to respond to it.

These days, post brain injury, I can cry at the drop of a hat. It can be rather embarrassing. I’m way better than I was a few years back, but still it can be an issue. The medical term is lability. I didn’t realise it was even a thing until my speech therapist pointed it out.

Anyway, back to the song. You see, am I crying because of this lability factor? Or more the fact this song does have that emotional wow factor? Also in recent times, people near and dear to me have died, so this adds to the impact too. Maybe all this is true, even world events, the endless wars and conflicts, natural disasters that go on around us.

This song, its story opens up your heart or soul or whatever you want to call it, the humanity of it all, great art can do this, and just like that this song does.

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Luke R Davies and the Recycled String Band won the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Folk Recording Award 2013 for their album Not A Note Wasted. A Wangaratta musician, Luke joined The Stereo Stories Band after seeing them at the Newport Folk Festival in Melbourne in 2014..