You're Never Really Laughing If You're Never Really Crying

You probably woke up this morning and thought to yourself: "I want to find a new artist to listen to." Well you're in luck.

I highly recommend our friend, Dylan Sneed, to you:
http://about.me/dylansneedmusic
http://www.myspace.com/dylansneed

Dylan has been described as a mix between Bob Dylan & Townes Van Zandt. I haven't heard a lot of Townes Van Zandt. But he's definitely some Bob Dylan . . . maybe some Ryan Adams . . . and just really good stuff. A rockin' folky singer.

Anyway, he's good. You should check him out.

I was listening to a song of his this morning, called Selfish Boy. There's a line in the song that says: "You're never really laughing if you're never really crying." I think that's great. We can't really laugh, and experience the good things that we want to in life, if we never cry, and experience that stuff that we don't necessarily want to in life. At least that's my take on it. Life is about the full range of emotions. And to really experience life, we have to be open to all of it . . . and not push down the stuff we don't want to deal with.

Easier said than done. But Dylan has some wisdom in his lyrics. There's a real maturity to them. And what I really appreciate is that his lyrics are impacted by his faith and spirituality . . . but he's not pushy or showy with it. It seems to me that his faith has helped make him who he is. And that just sort of comes through, seeps out in his lyrics.

Seems to be much more genuine and much more real than many of the so-called "Christian" songwriters and singers, in the Christian music industry. In my opinion, many of the lyrics of songs in that subculture are pretty shallow and have "theological holes" all in them. That's not to brand everyone doing that stuff that way . . . but there's a good bit out there that's just plain not good.

Dylan does not seem at all, from my perspective anyway, to want to be labeled by any terms like that. He seems to be a singer/songwriter, doing his thing. That sure seems to be a better way of doing things to me. But then again I'm biased. But anyway, he's good. Check him out.