“From These Words” Album Release JOHN COMMON Songs: Moonlight Already There You Stay It’s out Website: www.myspace.com/johncommon John Common says he dreams about being a filmmaker or a painter, but we’re lucky he ended up with an obsession for making music instead. His voice and his songs can pin you to the wall, break your heart, or send you off thinking for a while. John is a notoriously prolific songwriter -- because if he didn't write songs all the time, they'd clog his mind and his heart, create a log jam of sorts, and then he'd get stuck at stop lights and in coffee shop lines, mumbling incoherently to himself. John makes records—because as fun as the architecture of songwriting can be, it closes a kind of karmic loop to actually build the house too. John plays shows with his band—because, on a good night, he leaves his body down there on stage and just floats around with everyone else in the air. And that makes all of the loading of gear and winding of strings worth it.
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