In July, Pettis released a new version of the song (after the original acoustic video premiered on BGS), this time backed by the Indigo Girls. “He’s forgiven me, and we get to be close in a new way, now that we’ve made peace with ourselves. Thankfully, the subject of the song heard her words and the two have mended their fences. All previously tickets will remain valid for the new date. Years down the line and now based in Austin, Texas, Grace Pettis wrote her heart’s sorrow and contrition into a song that can only suggest the emotional complexity of her experience. Indigo Girls has been rescheduled to October 23, 2022. I knew that I had wronged Landon in a way that I could only explain in a song.”
Years of soul-searching, prayer, and information gathering led me to a very different place. “Instead of listening and responding with love and acceptance, I replied with a lot of canned answers taken from my Christian belief system, what the church taught me to say. “Landon needed somebody to be on his side. Instead of finding the loving support of a close friend, the song’s subject found judgment and scorn. Tom Tom Club / Sonic Youth / Loudon Wainwright III / Saul Williams / Son Volt / janis ian / Big Bad Voodoo Daddy / the Gourds / Cibo Matto / Alejandro Escovedo / Oleander / Robyn Hitchcock. Grace Pettis tells a dramatic story of regret in “Landon,” as she carefully weaves together her account of what happened in small-town Alabama when her childhood best friend came out of the closet. Black Eyed Peas / Death Cab for Cutie / Queens of the Stone Age / The Roots / Cake / Violent Femmes / Macy Gray / Pavement / Everlast / Steve Winwood / Jimmy Cliff / Emmylou Harris / Indigo Girls / R.E.M.
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