Joe Goodkin's 'Record of Loss' Available Now

From Joe Goodkin--"It may be self-evident from the title, but Record of Loss is essentially a set of elegies: remembrances of people no longer with me and us. It is full of the sorrow of loss, but also the hope that comes from confronting loss. It is the most vulnerable music I've ever put out into the world and though a challenging, disconcerting, and even disturbing listen, I'm incredibly proud of it. Record of Loss' predecessor, Record of Life, starts with the song Dog and Cat, which has lyrics that serve as a self-imposed challenge: "I'm going to pour everything into this record of my life/every pain and every fear and every loss/and all the things that I held back and all the things that I left out/and maybe that will finally finally quell the doubt." 

Record of Loss is the full realization of this challenge. What follows (and will be released this summer) is Record of Love: the fruits of getting through the darkness of Record of Loss. 

I owe an incredible debt to the people who gave me permission to tell their stories of loss as part of mine. It was an honor to be trusted with these stories and I hope I did them some justice. The people about whom I sing are among the strongest that I know and are an inspiration to me. The act of writing and singing someone's story is humbling to say the least. 

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I owe a particular thanks to the following: Shane Hendrickson at I.V. Lab Studios for engineering and mixing Record of Loss and truly taking all the ideas I brought to the production table and making them shine. Ditto Rollin Weary also of I.V. for his invested mastering and advice. Also, Bret Figura for the beautiful, sublime CD and web design you see on the cover. Finally, Kim at KG Music Press for her tireless work in getting folks to write and cover the release. 

I hope that if you're the type of person who shares on Facebook you'll share this post. I have the iTunes link here but Record of Loss is also available on Spotify and Amazon. If you're the type of person who writes reviews on iTunes or Amazon or builds and shares playlists on Spotify, I would treasure such things immensly. Know that it makes a difference for artists of my level. A huge difference. 

I'll have at least one more incredible thing to share in the coming weeks (an amazing video by Nicholas Ferrario) and then in the coming months I'll continue to post press until I reveal the plans to release a double vinyl collection of Record of Life, Record of Loss, and Record of Love, this summer. 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/record-of-loss-ep/id119736042