Destitute

Christopher Paul Stelling

Even before 2020 slid historically off the rails, **Christopher Paul Stelling** confronted an essential exercise in acceptance and gratitude. In December 2019, Stelling started another cross-country sprint from California to Florida, where the songwriter who has long called western North Carolina home was raised. Aside from recording his fifth album, Best of Luck, he had toured much of that year, making relentless laps around North America. He wanted to make it home not only for Christmas but also to see Emma, his 92-year-old grandmother. He didn’t; she passed just days before he arrived. Recorded alone in her modest white ranch house in Daytona Beach, Forgiving It All—Stelling’s wisest, most intimate, and most settled record yet, and his first self-released LP in eight years—feels like a final tribute to her and to everything he and we have lost or gained.

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**Sophia Corinne** harvests poetry for the lines of each song from her life, one lived paying attention. Her songs are witness to the raw difficulties and layered radiant joys that every heart bears. In both writing and voice, Sophia’s songs offer the companionship of something beautiful for us to hold close in any season.

She released her debut EP, The Rim via Ghost Mountain Records at the end of 2021. In the summer of 2022, she toured extensively. Her second EP, Isabel will be released via Ghost Mountain Records in 2023. Sophia Corrine is currently based in Asheville NC. ~Malena Sweers

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Christopher Paul Stelling

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