Ain't that Angry

Back in the winter of 2010, I rode with The Van’s Aaron Reddin during a national census of the Homeless population. Aaron, Red, and others scoured the forgotten parts of the city in search of Aaron’s friends living in tents, under bridges, and behind downtown office buildings. In the months to follow, I was unable to forget the experience or the conversations we had that evening. It was a very cold night and I was particularly haunted by a question Aaron posed. On a night where the temperatures would dip into the teens, the lines outside the local shelters were long. The Salvation Army, I learned, charged $7.00 for a bed for the night. Aaron’s question was simply this…
“if you were homeless and the only other choice was to risk freezing to death; what would you do for $7.00? How far would you degrade yourself for a chance to sleep inside?”
I wrote this song about a year later and recorded it with Monkhouse in 2013. Until now, it has been available as a download exclusively on Bandcamp. Today, in honor of World Homeless Day, it can be streamed ANYWHERE you listen to music.
If you like it, Slip a few bucks to The Van as they prepare for winter and work to make sure nobody has to sleep outside.
Produced & Engineered by Jason Weinheimer
Recorded at Fellowship Hall Sound - Little Rock, AR
Monkhouse:
Mark Currey: Acoustic Guitar & Vocals
Nathaniel Greer: Electric Guitar
Daniel Schoultz: Bass
David Bishop: Drums
Special Guests:
Rev. Greg Spradlin: Electric Guitar
Rj Looney: Blues Harp