Hayes Carll Instore Performance, Album Signing & Record Release Celebration
We hope you’ll make plans to join us in the record store on Friday, August 8th for a special instore performance, album signing and record release celebration with Hayes Carll to celebrate the release of his new album, We’re Only Human. Hayes isn’t preaching or teaching. He’s not interested in telling the rest of us what to do or think. But he is charting out a personal guide for his life, quieting the noise, and sitting with his real voice - the one that’s candid, consistent, and often inconvenient. We’re happy to be here with him for it and look forward to you joining us for some fellowship in the record shop. All who preorder Hayes’ new album from Grimey’s, in the record store or on our site here, will receive a wristband for his post-performance signing. Wristbands are required for the signing for all 13+ (kids 12 & under don’t need a wristband if attending with a wristband holding adult.)
We’re Only Human is Carll’s tenth album. Like his best lyrics, it is also an understated masterpiece, an honest snapshot of one man’s confrontation and delight with humanity’s biggest and most intimate questions. Where do we find forgiveness for ourselves and grace for others? How do we hold on to peace of mind and stay present? What can we—and should we––trust? And how can we moor ourselves to, well, ourselves, in the midst of confusing, trying times? We’re Only Human offers audiences the chance to listen to Carll as he listens to himself.
“I’ve lived outside of myself for so long,” Carll admits. “Distractions, fear, anxiety, insecurity, and the complexity of being human in this world have so often pulled me away from being present or at peace.”
As We’re Only Human collects moments of Carll figuring out how to be with himself, the songs feel forthright, hopeful, and timely. In today’s onslaught of instant gratification, rage-baiting headlines, glorified intolerance, and falling empathy, the record is a startling outlier: an artist’s raw, real-life effort to live well—both with himself and others. Carll embraces private epiphanies, and shares them with the world, allowing them to unfold for all to see and share.