David Husted Music

This feels close in spirit to a lot of modern working-class poetry — where transcendence is constantly interrupted by cigarettes, schedules, fatigue, and economic reality.

Author: Matthew Rice
Work: plastic: A Poem
Form: a sequence of clock-time fragments following workers…

“Boileau said that Kings, Gods, and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires. Present day kings aren’t very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation, and about the only heroes left…

Welcome,

I have a new song called Dungarees officially releasing end of this week. You can hear it right now. Thank you for supporting my songwriting journey.

The reference track for my upcoming release—“Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to…

I keep all my original songs in a spreadsheet and let a random shuffle decide the pick. Today it landed on “Submarine,” a track released both as a single and later on my album Many Faces. I love this…

It’s love that never spoke its name, understood only when it’s far too late—no sentimentality, just a slow, hard reckoning.

Those Winter Sundays

By Robert Hayden

Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the…

You know I can 
control the weather
with my moods. 
I just can't control 
my moods is all.

-Nick Cave

Dungarees is now officially set to hit the streaming cosmos on 8 MAY 26.

Here is a lyric snippet

"It’s not that I’m hopeless, but hope needs a break,
And the sun hides his face , he’s just tired today…

Most people don’t notice how much of their day is decided before they even wake up—grooves worn deep by habit, not choice. Every so often, I snap the needle on purpose: take the wrong road, strike the wrong chord first…

So Much Happiness
Naomi Shihab Nye
1952 –
 

It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness.
With sadness there is something to rub against,
a wound to tend with lotion and cloth.
When the world falls…

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on…

Final Prep Done. Song launched to distributor for inspection. 8 MAY 26 Boom. It's a celebration

New Single: Dungarees: 8 MAY 26 Release