Video Premiere: Jeremy Nail Shares "Live Oak"

Credit: Michael Craft

Jeremy Nail’s internationally acclaimed 2016 release, My Mountain, produced by Alejandro Escovedo, conveyed an intensely personal journey that stemmed from his own harrowing health crisis. On his latest album, Live Oak, Nail once again showcases his poetic, personal landscape of songs but this time takes the listener on a different kind of path, one past pain, to determination to not only survive, but thrive.  

Inspired by the national story of a criminal poisoning, and the miraculous treatment & survival, of the Treaty Oak (Live Oak) tree in Austin nearly 30 years ago, the title track to Nail's album demonstrates the inherent symbolism between his battle with, and survival from, a rare form of cancer, in which one of his legs had to be amputated, and the Live Oak’s survival.  

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Today, TDC is honored to premiere the video for the tender and uplifting, "Live Oak." Filmed outside Austin, the serene, yet captivating piece was created by sister/brother team Rachael and Michael Craft who exquisitely balance the imagery of a post-rain peacefulness and life affirming re-birth between the sturdy Oak and Nail's own voyage of perseverance.

Nail comments, “Live Oak represents the healing powers of nature and music. Rachael and Michael Craft captured a subtle, serene quality that makes the song feel at home.”

Directed by Rachael Craft
Cinematography & editing by Michael Craft

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