“Gray Lodge Wisdom” was written and recorded while Stratton underwent a year of chemotherapy, several extensive surgeries, and other treatment stemming from a diagnosis of late-stage testicular cancer in 2012, Stratton is understandably conflicted about the way his new record might come across.
“I hope that this doesn’t come across as a Record About Cancer, because it’s not,” explains Stratton. “I think that it informed the process and the sound of the record more than it affected the content of some of the songs.”
Through repeated listens to “Gray Lodge Wisdom” that sentiment becomes crystal clear via plaintive, sprawling folk odes confronting the light, the dark, and the void between those two spectrums.
- Will Stratton
- Gray Lodge Wisdom
- Album , CD / VINYL + MP3
- Tal-078 — 2014
- Will Stratton
- Post Empire
- Album , CD, LP / VINYL + MP3
- Tal-066 — 2012
