Thanks for checking out my first full length album “As if Words could Heal the Wounds”. Click on each song below for credits & stories behind the songs.
CREDITS
Produced by Ben Grace
Released September 4, 2020
Cover art: Logan Martin
Cover photo: Karyn Thurston
PODCAST APPEARANCES
FUTURE OBSESSION
Talking about the album, art, activism, and releasing music in the age of Covid
Activist theology
A conversation about the two things that fuel my album (& their podcast) - activism & theology.
“If there is an album to sum up the mood of 2020, it’s this one. A wonderful mix of love, lament, protest, and a much needed dash of hope for the future.”
Press release
SAN DIEGO, CA—Australian born singer-songwriter Ben Grace’s debut album “As If Words Could Heal the Wounds” is a hopeful cross-country Americana road trip for the end of a quarantined summer. Recorded in five different states, with production by Sheryl Crow guitarist Joshua Grange and cameos from drum legend Fred Eltringham and folk singer Molly Parden, it’s a profoundly intimate look at the wounds and systemic injustices that plague Americans, artfully woven through the perspective and personal religious deconstruction of a single immigrant man.
With over 100k streams, the first full length album of Ben Grace’s two decade musical career is landing in an unprecedented time. 2020’s pandemic has been the catalyst for global self-reflection and reinvention, and Grace’s deftly written telling of his own trajectory through divorce, failure, and new love provides an essential soundtrack for our collective transformation.
In an era where anxiety, police brutality, and division populate our news feeds, “As If Words Could Heal the Wounds” comes with eyes wide open to our failings as part lament, part opus, and part hope for our rebuilding. It’s a preposterous idea, that the right words might heal the deep wounds around us. How lucky we are to have artists who continue to try.
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“An illuminating collection of social commentary, and personal introspection: haunting and haunted.”
ALBUM PODCAST
A weekly podcast that dives into the stories behind the songs on the album.
“Can I tell you how extremely difficult
it is to be welled up in my heart
with hope and pain at the same time?
That’s the dance of this latest blissful
weaving of song and melody ...
of raw emotion and loving justice ...
of troubadour pondering
and settled amazement.
Ben Grace has such a way of
reminding the world that fear
doesn’t have the final say;
that night has it’s own song
to wrap around you;
and that mirrors can open up courage.
I can think of no better album title than
AS IF WORDS COULD HEAL THE WOUNDS”