I like to make music that creates space.
Space in which you and I can walk.
Walk and find insights about how we see the world and how we don't.
Then, if you're like me, your relationships with yourself, others, and the world will start to develop in unexpected ways.
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When I was young I thought I was crazy. Nothing that my family and the world was saying to me was reflected in the world I saw.
Then I found Dylan, Dave van Ronk and what really woke me up, The Velvet Underground and Buffy Saint Marie. They sang songs about what I saw.
Despair, suicide, people driven down to the ground by society, people looking for refuge, people finding refuge, finding redemption.
So maybe I wasn't crazy. I trusted others, not what I saw.
That's how music saved my life.
Now
I make music because I can't not make it.
I what my music that frees others the way it freed me.
By writing about the world as I see it.
By not using phony lyrics to make you feel better.
By not telling you how to interpret them.
If I sing the world as I see it
What more can I do?
With love and affection,
John Dienhart
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