Robert Hill breaks down I Will Drown Out The Moon

“That’s what words are, they create a perspective. You can rearrange the words and make anything beautiful.” - Robert Hill

Hello and welcome to the self-help songwriter podcast! I’m Hanna Francis, a singer-songwriter who is obsessed with self-help (thanks, anxiety!) and is certain that the answers to life’s big questions lie within each of us and on this podcast we search for these answers by analyzing songs with the people who wrote them. In each episode we invite a songwriter to share an original song. Then, we will break it down together, line by line, and extract the maximum meaning from it. We’ll learn how different songwriters translate their life experience or personal philosophies into music. 

Today we have Robert Hill on the show, my soul-brother and fellow Folklore Center loiterer. Robert writes and sings in the American folk tradition, mixing more traditional fingerpicking root styles with his own brand of Scandinavian psychedelia. 

In this episode we talk about:

✨How he used to write several songs per day (??!!).
✨How his current process takes MUCH longer and invites in the subconscious. 
✨How Bob Dylan seems like a grumpy genius. 
✨This song is his version of “People Are Strange” by the Doors. 
✨How there’s beauty in everything.
✨How destructive tendencies can ultimately act as creative forces. 
✨How your perspective is sometimes the only thing you can change.

And SO MUCH MORE!


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Balkan Folkdance Youtube
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Stuff we mentioned:
The Great Kenny Rogers song
Visions of Johanna

Photo of Robert by Ken Andersson