{"id":7737,"date":"2024-04-05T09:32:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T14:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/?p=7737"},"modified":"2024-04-05T09:33:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T14:33:27","slug":"sean-mcmahons-new-album-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/2024\/04\/sean-mcmahons-new-album-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean McMahon spreads his music ministry to the world with a new album release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This year marks the 10-year anniversary of our music minister, Sean’s, first Workman Song (his label name) release, Lamb<\/em>. He is celebrating the anniversary with a special album, The Lamb and the Wol<\/a>f<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In his own words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As I prepared to give Lamb <\/em>to the world in 2014, I was two years into my Brooklyn journey. My bittersweet early-mid twenties. I\u2019d toured all over North America and Europe with Bird Courage and Streets of Laredo. Dave Gibson from Streets, now a top tier music manager himself, sat me down at Lil\u2019 Skips Cafe in Bushwick with a pen and notebook and walked me through how indie musicians release and promote music in the 2010\u2019s. I was green and, being more interested in theology than the music business, had no idea what he was talking about, but still managed to follow his instructions to the T! And so Lamb <\/em>landed in people\u2019s Spotify algorithm and all that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The songs from Lamb<\/em> were written in Western Massachusetts and Brooklyn, my homes. It was not the happiest time in my life \u2014 but it was very hopeful. My friend, songwriter Tim Dobel, just heard these songs for the first time recently: \u201cDamn you\u2019re an intense dude.\u201d Lol. Maybe back then. It was a time of spiritual searching. I was a kid who wanted to become a Franciscan monk on the one hand, and Father John Misty the rock and roll trickster on the other. I was this<\/em> close to joining a religious order in late 2011 when I 180\u2019d at the advice of my mentor Father Michael Sitaras, a gifted artist, and followed in his footsteps as a twenty-something \u2014 I headed to the center of the universe, New York City, to give it the proverbial shot and make it<\/em>. If nothing else, it would be something like rumspringa<\/em> for a would-be monk. It turned out to be both and neither.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lamb<\/em> marked the day I struck out on my own and, it turns out, 10 years later I\u2019m not quite Father John Misty, nor am I a monk \u2014 but somehow the music led me to who and where I am today: a truly grateful thirty-something husband, father, and minister, and I am somehow by the grace of God raising my family on music. \u201cHalfway to Gandalf the Grey,\u201d I like to say. I couldn\u2019t have done it without all of your support \u2014 so from the bottom of my heart, thank you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lamb & the Wolf<\/strong><\/em><\/a>is the whole of the Lamb<\/em> recording sessions, inclusive of the Lamb <\/em>EP, her sister EP Wolf<\/em>, and two unreleased bonus tracks that, don\u2019t ask me why, were left off of both. These two songs, Williamsburg Bridge<\/em> and The Ballad of Mighty Jim and His Mother<\/em> are probably two of the best songs I\u2019ve ever written. These were the ones that connected most when I was playing those lonely stages and subway platforms in New York City. The ones that made people cry and that were a bit difficult for me to perform. I hope they connect with you\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a limited time, The Lamb & The Wolf<\/strong><\/em><\/a> will be available on Bandcamp<\/a> (and only on Bandcamp) on a pay-what-you-will <\/strong>basis. Today is Bandcamp Friday, by the way, so Bandcamp is generously waiving their share of revenue. Your support means the world to me and my family, and helps me continue this hodgepodge of music and ministry that I call my calling. Again, thank you and thank you again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God bless,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sean<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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