Song Premiere: Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters, “Learning How To Love Him”
Change is unavoidable. There’s not a thing you can do to stop it and if you resist its pull, it takes an even greater toll on your spirit. If you can stand back and allow it to happen, though, you might be surprised by the results.
Amanda Anne Platt knows all about change – how scary it can feel and yet how exhilarating it can be at the same time. Recently, she decided it was time to put herself and her musical artistry front and center. Her bandmates agreed and so, starting with their new, self-titled album, The Honeycutters will now be known as Amanda Anne Platt and The Honeycutters. A small change, perhaps, but one that leaves no doubt about who the heart and soul of this remarkable band really is.
“Learning How To Love Him,” a song you’ll find on the new album, is a prime example of the new intimacy Platt shares with her audience. Her voice, rising and falling above a simple, spare guitar line, is on display in a way it never has been before.
Quietly, candidly, and without a trace of sentimentality, Platt examines how love changes over the years as circumstances dictate. Love, like life, experiences its fair share of ups and downs. It can be strong and steady one moment and wavering and fragile in the next. And, surprisingly, in the wake of tragedy, it can bloom anew to become more meaningful than ever before.
Platt says she wrote the song after hearing an acquaintance talk about learning that her husband of four-plus decades was terminally ill. “What really struck me was how she described the tenderness that the news brought back to their relationship,” Platt says. “She said that the house was quiet and she had never realized how much they used to yell at one another. The topic is unavoidably sad but I meant to focus on the beauty of loving someone for that long rather than the loss.”
You DO feel the loss in this song – it would be impossible not to. Yet, the journey this particular love takes is one any of us would be lucky to experience.
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Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters will be released on June 9th, and is available for pre-order now at iTunes and Amazon.com.
