GALLERY
“Regarding Soup & Sound, I think what you’re doing is important on many levels so I want to support this effort. It’s very unusual to open one’s home to strangers in this time of paranoia and suspicion – that you do so regularly is such an act of faith in the essential goodness of people that it’s inspiring. And, I dare say, a bit of an antidote to the prevailing culture. Of course your faith is founded on the message in your music, which is also a sort of antidote. But there is a kind of underlying message in Soup & Sound that, “if you dig my music, then it’s okay to let you in my house”. I appreciate the confidence of that premise, because it communicates a belief in what you are doing artistically, a belief that is perhaps necessary in order to persevere against cultural trends. And then what happens at the performances is an instant community experience – a shared reality that is creative and open. Both you are your wife were so welcoming to a couple of strangers from Maine, it warmed our hearts for days after. Thank you, sir, for the audacity to go for it, the whole enchilada.”
– James Wright, Maine