Ears Wide Open: Sean Alan and the True Love Band

S.Lo on June 22nd, 2018

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L.A.-based Sean Alan and the True Love Band make folk-rock in the great singer-songwriter tradition. “Refugee” is the au courant single off his album “The Show Must Go On,” out today.

Enshrouded in a feel-good folk-rock saunter, the compassionate track is sung from the well-worn shoes of a long-sojourned refugee. It’s a brutally honest account of having to pack and run only to have the gates ahead constantly shut in front of you. Reminiscent of Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger’s social documentary songs, it personalizes the experience of constant catch-22s on the endless journey of survival as Alan sings, “You’re never lookin’ behind / You’re runnin’ just to survive / Wandering all the earth / Wonderin’ what it’s worth / Just tryin’ to find a place to breathe and hang your dirty shirt.” Anyone who’s traveled far distances can relate to at least the exhaustion. Alan hopes for the refugee in this song, “all skin and bones,” that they will “make it to greener grows” where they can rest their feet in a place that recognizes and welcomes their humanity.

Alan says of the album overall, “It’s raw and real, romantic and honest.”

||| Stream: “Refugee Song” and “My Love for You”