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Hello Friends,

I’m so exited to announce my new single, “Something Good” is Available NOW! You can listen and purchase it here! 

It’s the first single from my new album, Lay It On Me, which will be released on June 25th.You can learn more about the album in this American Songwriter feature here.

I’ve been getting more active on YouTube, so subscribe to my channel now to find out whenever I post new videos! Subscribe here!
 

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More exciting announcements to come! Take good care and stay well! 🙂

Love,

Gabe

I have a new song out today! You can listen to it HERE. I’d like to share a few thoughts about it with you. ❤️

This song is about having the courage to speak and act for what it right. It is about peacefully standing up for equality and justice—racial justice, economic justice, LGBTQIA justice, environmental justice. In my mind, they are all part of the same justice. 

We are one body. One human family, one earth family—animals, plants, minerals, chemicals, etc.,—and we all depend upon one another for survival. The sooner we arrive together at this place of consciousness and start acting out of this knowledge, the sooner we will realize the promise of a peaceful world. 

These ideas may seem quaint, naive, and unrealistic to some, but fear does have a way of making love seem impractical or silly.

True love takes a deep and abiding courage and vulnerability. That is what the people on the list at the end of this song have demonstrated in their lives. That’s the kind of courage we need more of in this world from you and me.

—Still reading? Here’s more about writing the song—

I was sitting in my house a few weeks ago with my sons, Liam and Luke, and my wife, Amanda. They weren’t at school, and we were working from home. We were trying to do our part to, as scientists and statisticians would say, “flatten the curve” of COVID-19 case numbers, so that the health care system wouldn’t be overwhelmed, and so that we could buy some time as a society, in hopes that a cure or a vaccine would be developed. 

This was the same time that the world was starting to have an awakening around racial injustice and the killing of George Floyd and so many innocent black people at the hands of police and others. So, as I sat in my house that day, thinking about the pandemic, I suddenly started thinking about another curve—one talked about in a quote from a 19th century abolitionist, Theodore Parker. He said, 

“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.[63]” 

That quote was paraphrased and popularized a century later in a sermon by Martin Luther King, in which he said “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

As the Black Lives Matter protests were happening all over the world and people made countless numbers of statements on their social media platforms standing in solidarity with the protestors and with the lives and life stations of all black, indigenous, and people of color—as people wanted their voice to be counted, gave a platform to black voices, changed band names, took down confederate symbols, took down statues of known racists from history, held vigils and protests, it dawned on me that this arc of the moral universe DOES bend toward justice, but IT DOESN’T DO IT ON IT’S OWN. It doesn’t do it automatically. 

It takes people like us to stand up and be counted, to say “this is wrong.” This is unjust. And this is how the arc has always bent toward justice, with people having the courage to potentially alienate a friend or a family member or a co-worker, or to potentially ruffle the wrong feathers and maybe even put yourself in danger, to stand for what is right.

And to me, racial justice is just one part of justice in the moral universe. There is also environmental justice, justice for the planet, which means paying attention to science—that divine gift of discovery, our collective eyes and ears on the earth—so that we can better understand this creation so that we can better take care of it (and, by extension, ourselves). It’s economic justice, justice for the poor of all races and genders. It’s justice for LGBTQIA people, and really for all people who are fighting for equality and for legitimacy just for being who they are and for speaking truth to power. This is the justice that Jesus and Martin Luther King and Galileo and Nelson Mandela and Ghandi and St. Francis and so many others talked about and stood up for. 

And so, for all of these reasons, I was inspired to write this song. It’s called “Bend The Curve.” I hope you like it.

My new song, “Smoke Clears” is now available. Give a listen here:

https://ps.onerpm.com/gabedixonsmokeclears

Here is an update and some thoughts about this song:

Hey Everybody!

What a year this has been! Like many of you, my big 2020 plans were totally blown apart in the spring. If things had gone as planned, right now I’d be wrapping up a summer tour, and you would have my new album in your hands or on your speakers. Obviously there was no tour and I’ve chosen to postpone the album release for a few more months. In the interim, I have been reflecting on the ways our lives have changed, the chaos and uncertainty we have all experienced, and I have written songs about it. Today I want to share with you one of those songs.

I wrote “Smoke Clears” with two of my favorite songwriters, Garrison Starr and Maia Sharp. We felt compelled to write this song because of the major shifts in our ways of living brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, and because of the great uncertainty we feel about our collective future. That coupled with the righteous awakenings around the issues of racial justice and policing reform have given us feelings of anger and despair; but also a great hope and optimism that these fires of change will forge us into better human beings and that we will all see a better world when the smoke clears.

You can expect even more new music soon, and I’ll be making some announcements about the new album very soon! Wishing you health, happiness, and strength to persevere. 

Sincerely,
Gabe

I will be heading out on tour with my friend Tyrone Wells. I hope to be hitting a city near you over this month and a half tour. Very excited to play some new music for you and hope to see you there! Tickets HERE