The Big Blue
“The Big Blue” began taking shape in the spring of 2022, the early days of Danny Golden’s sobriety. That story quickly expanded into a wider narrative of love, loss, and growth. In the summer of 2024, with a notebook full of song sketches from his last 2 years, Golden took a solo pilgrimage to Leonard Cohen’s house in Greece. It was while wandering the Greek islands, reading mythology, that he began to see the vision of how to connect these sketches and ideas into the album he needed to make.
“The Big Blue” is a chronicle of letting go, tracing the path from personal collapse to breakthrough, and of the treasures found along the way. Stream it now where you listen to music or buy the record below.
The ghost is getting hungry he's gotta find a way to get fed
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The ghost is getting hungry he's gotta find a way to get fed 👻
“It’s a wake-up album.”
“I set out to make a record about getting sober, about that experience. But it doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Life happened very fast. I lost friends to drugs, I fell in love, I found heartbreak. I had to learn to surrender over and over again, and this album tracks my struggles through that journey. Most every song on the album is in some way about trying to fill an emptiness with something that seems like it’ll work, whether it’s a substance or a person, or success, or any of the other myriad ways I tried to find wholeness outside of myself. It’s about finding out again and again that this simply doesn’t work.
The album is a chronicle of me letting go of the things I spent my whole life chasing and clinging to, thinking they’d solve my problems. It’s about what happened after I let go, and the unexpected places where I found what I was looking for. To me, this isn’t simply a sobriety album, a grief album, or a breakup album. It’s a wake-up album.”
War fever ran high
Doin' what you thought you had to do to survive
War fever ran high Doin' what you thought you had to do to survive
The Big Blue on vinyl. 180 gram high-quality pressing manufactured at Gold Rush in Austin, TX. Listen to the album the way it was meant to be heard.
It's a chain I just can't break, I'm powerless
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It's a chain I just can't break, I'm powerless 🔋
