Geoffrey Lewis finds solace in community on album exploring 5 stages of grief
Partway through putting together his latest mini-album, American singer-songwriter Geoffrey Lewis started to see a pattern in the songs. The new songs he was creating closely mirrored the five stages of grief. Lewis had recently lost two friends, one to cancer and the other to suicide, and his grief influenced him to write the song "Back to Sender." "While reflecting on that, I noticed a unique pattern in the music," he said. "They seemed to cover the five stages of grief, and I think that's what I had been experiencing in the making of this album." The songs go through all five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance, from stuttering "d-d-d-d-denial" in the opening track "Kinky D" through the acceptance of "Back to Sender." (Lewis admitted he swapped the songs representing anger and bargaining for the sake of flow.) "We're just constantly going through things and trying to deal with them, in minor ways or major ways," he told The Korea Times during an impromptu interview on the sidewalk in central Seoul's multicultural Haebangchon (HBC) neighborhood. "I think that I
