The final track of this collection wraps up the three-album trilogy by exploring the conflicting concepts of mortality; between faith and doubt, the certainty of death and the instinct for survival, the balance of the duality of nature, and ultimately what tips the scales in the legacy we leave behind.
24 Jan 2022
Cannonball Girl
Common themes like love, loss, and survival are all foundations of great songwriting. In this installment, we discover how a daredevil circus act can represent the full range of creation.
24 Jan 2022
Rock Hard Bottom
Dustin attempts to explain how this particular song illustrates his sadistic tendency to make his characters suffer as much as possible in the pursuit of redemption.
24 Jan 2022
Poster Child
"It's an Amateur Theater..." in this song about the artificial products of premature achievement.
24 Jan 2022
Double Single Malt Scotch
Dustin discusses the importance of binary symbolism in cocktail etiquette.
24 Jan 2022
After The Music
How the ghosts of Gruene Hall became an inspiration for this song of hope and rebuilding.
2 Jan 2022
Man of Stone
An existential crises through the long dark night of the soul.
1 Jan 2022
Dresden Snow
This is a song about a portion of the novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by author Jonathan Safran Foer. It talks about loss and grief and trauma through the lens of someone who can't actually talk themself.
18 Dec 2019
Paranoid Heart
Dustin discusses founding the non-profit organization, Soldier Songs and Voices, and the realizations which lead to this song; written with Jeremiah Nelson and John Fullbright.
10 Dec 2019
The Player
The Corruption of Power, the Ivory Tower Syndrome, and The Sword of Damocles.
10 Dec 2019
Forgotten Child
The strange story of writing the haunted character in the second song of the album.
10 Dec 2019
Stick To The Facts
Dustin talks about the tall-tale he spins in the opening track, and discusses the idea for his three-part collection of albums, culminating with Amateur Theater.
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