TURNTABLE TUESDAY - Compassionate Combat - Susan Gibson

Good morning, everyone!

I know I said yesterday I wanted to put Josie Bello on the turntable today. Slight issue that I don't have an accessible CD player at the moment and didn't have her in my files for dropbox. So I'm switching gears. I think this post is meant to be.

COMPASSIONATE COMBAT is a unique project by Susan Gibson. Susan has always been someone I've known to work from her heart. She writes what she feels and is always looking for a way to let her music give back. 

The info for this project came to me back in March from Adam Dawson at Broken Jukebox Media. 

This isn't an album to review. It's a single song bringing attention to the nurses working beyond what they ever thought they signed up for. Please check out the page COMPASSIONATE COMBAT for information on how you can support the men and women who have been facing death at the risk of their own health since this mess began. Many have moved completely away from their families in an effort to protect their loved ones. 

Susan shares the background on the Compassionate Combat website, but I'm sharing it here for you as well:

Back in mid-April, 2020, my friend Carolyn Phillips reached out to me to write a song for her organization, Songs for the Soul to say thank you to the nurses who are giving so much of themselves to care for us through this pandemic.

I have worked with Carolyn and Songs for the Soul before~~I’m a huge fan of her, her music and her enormous, enthusiastic, empathetic heart. Even before the pandemic, one of the danger zones in the nursing profession is something known as caregiver fatigue. Nurses care for other people at the expense of their own health and well-being. Songs for the Soul is a program of pairing nurses with songwriters with the idea that by telling their stories and then hearing them put into songs, the nurses will experience a degree of healing, of being witnessed.

I have to say, I know that to be true for myself in my own work. As I have worked with other songwriters and groups of people who may not have the language or felt entitled to their own emotions, the combination of truth-telling and then objective crafting to create a song that resonates with the writer or anyone else is a very healing process.

You can share you support and thank them for their service by donating to the American Nurses Foundation HERE.

Here's the video:

Thank you for your support

Country Blessings

~Kelly