Thanks to everyone who’s been listening to Everyday and watching the Outer Range trailer and buying tickets to The Minutes. Very grateful for all of your love and support. In return, I offer you this photo you’ve probably already seen, taken after a couple of day pints at Ronnie’s by the great @dane.does.portraits, who happened to write one of my favourite movies, Old Stock. Can’t take these moments for granted nowadays.
Billy Tillerson in Outer Range. I love him, and I love this show. Hope y’all are enjoying the first couple of episodes of this strange metaphysical western on @primevideo. And if you haven’t seen it yet, don’t be a silly goose. Get in.
Now here I go again, I see the crystal vision. I keep my visions to myself. It’s only me who wants to wrap around your dreams, and have you any dreams you’d like to sell? Dreams of loneliness, like a heartbeat drives you mad, in the stillness of remembering what you had. And what you lost. What you had and what you lost.
Billy Tillerson. Captured by the great @brianbowensmith #OuterRange
Back on the road babyyyyyyyyyyy
Excited to share some new music with you all over the next few months. This is my third and favourite record that I’ve made with my musical consigliere @barbermattic and I’m so grateful for him and the incredible band that came together in the middle of a plague to bring these songs to life. You can pre-save Adjustments at the link in my bio. Everyday is out today. 😎
Tillerson Tuesday
A few years ago, I was in Florence and saw Michaelangelo’s David, and was surprised to read that the block of marble it was carved from sat abandoned for years in a courtyard. Another artist had been commissioned to create the sculpture, but didn’t get very far before determining that the marble was faulty. So there this massive chunk of incredible stone sits for a couple of decades, neglected and exposed to the elements, and then along comes Michaelangelo, who creates the most recognizable statue in the history of the world. When we were recording Gemini, Chris Stringer (who engineered and mixed that record, and had us over to his beautiful Union Sound Company to record both Gemini and Adjustments) would always use this phrase, “the statue’s in the stone”, meaning it’s in there somewhere, it’s just a matter of removing the pieces that are in the way to reveal its most essential form. I’m a sucker for a quick turn of phrase that reveals a larger truth, and I loved the idea that David was in there the whole time. We live in a really loud time. We think we’re supposed to be a lot of things. We think we’re supposed to have a lot of things. Michaelangelo had it right. Just keep chipping away, it’s in there already.
Apparel shoot for @olreid merch for the ‘Everything’s Fine’ tour. Link in his bio to grab your own. – #fujifilm200
Apparel shoot for @olreid merch for the ‘Everything’s Fine’ tour. Link in his bio to grab your own. – #fujifilm200
Apparel shoot for @olreid merch for the ‘Everything’s Fine’ tour. Link in his bio to grab your own. – #fujifilm200
Apparel shoot for @olreid merch for the ‘Everything’s Fine’ tour. Link in his bio to grab your own. – #fujifilm200
Apparel shoot for @olreid merch for the ‘Everything’s Fine’ tour. Link in his bio to grab your own. – #fujifilm200
I’ve only been to Minneapolis once, and only for a handful of hours, but the winter afternoon I spent walking through the streets of the larger of the Twin Cities is burned into my memory like a tin type photograph. It was the only stop on our tour of what I lovingly call the Schitt Show that we weren’t staying overnight in, which meant I had nowhere to be until showtime, and nowhere to be until showtime. No problem, I thought, I’ll show myself around. By a lot of measures, nothing much happened that day. But for me it felt completely pivotal. It was my first real taste of these moments of clarity that can reveal themselves on the road. They’re not always joyful, but they’re true as all hell, and they let you know exactly who you are and where you’re at. If you’re in Minneapolis in the winter with some time to kill, and 9th and Hennepin feels like a crossroads, and the times they are a changin, put your yellow leather gloves on and take this song for a walk.
I wrote Rivers Underground in the year leading up to my wedding. I kept thinking about how easy it would have been for us to have missed each other altogether. I would flashback to the beginning of our relationship, and marvel at how we got here, turning over the notions of inevitability and choice, and how in the present, what feels like a decision can with hindsight feel like destiny. My hometown of Toronto is built on top of creeks and rivers, water pathways that were inconvenient for the development of a growing city. We’ve buried and diverted them, and most of them don’t exist in their natural form anymore, but underneath us, they continue to wind their way out to wherever they were going in the first place, flowing apart and coming back together in spite of whatever might be in their way. Love is a choice. And it’s inevitable. I’m grateful every day for the love in my life, and I hope this song allows you some time and space to reflect on the love in yours, however that looks to you. ❤️
Another leg of the Everything’s Fine tour in the books. Thank you LA, SF, PDX, VIC & VAN for the impeccable west coast vibes. A little bit of rest, a touch of home, and off the eastern United States!
Outer Range on @primevideo April 15. The world’s been waiting for something like this. That’s a line from the show. But it’s also true. #OuterRange 🦬
The Everything’s Fine Tour comes to an end on Thursday with what feels like a Reunion Show at the Danforth Music Hall. If you’re in Toronto, come see us, I guarantee a fun time. If you’ve already seen us somewhere else, thanks for being a part of it. After thirty something shows all over the world, it still blows my mind how many of you have come to these shows, ready to sing along to these songs I never thought anyone would know. So grateful to have had the opportunity to do this, and in such fine, fine company. 🙏
The Everything’s Fine Tour comes to an end on Thursday with what feels like a Reunion Show at the Danforth Music Hall. If you’re in Toronto, come see us, I guarantee a fun time. If you’ve already seen us somewhere else, thanks for being a part of it. After thirty something shows all over the world, it still blows my mind how many of you have come to these shows, ready to sing along to these songs I never thought anyone would know. So grateful to have had the opportunity to do this, and in such fine, fine company. 🙏
The Everything’s Fine Tour comes to an end on Thursday with what feels like a Reunion Show at the Danforth Music Hall. If you’re in Toronto, come see us, I guarantee a fun time. If you’ve already seen us somewhere else, thanks for being a part of it. After thirty something shows all over the world, it still blows my mind how many of you have come to these shows, ready to sing along to these songs I never thought anyone would know. So grateful to have had the opportunity to do this, and in such fine, fine company. 🙏
The Everything’s Fine Tour comes to an end on Thursday with what feels like a Reunion Show at the Danforth Music Hall. If you’re in Toronto, come see us, I guarantee a fun time. If you’ve already seen us somewhere else, thanks for being a part of it. After thirty something shows all over the world, it still blows my mind how many of you have come to these shows, ready to sing along to these songs I never thought anyone would know. So grateful to have had the opportunity to do this, and in such fine, fine company. 🙏
Don’t miss @schittscreek’s Noah Reid in his Broadway debut. #TheMinutes #HereisYourFuture #WelcometoBigCherry 🎟 theminutesbroadway.com
There is a great void. #OuterRange premieres April 15 on @primevideo
