Zach Moss has released a Christian Contemporary Music (CCM) track called 'Doubting Thomas'. 'Doubting Thomas' is one of 7 songs that you can find on his debut album 'Dark to Light'.
Zach has a fascinating story to tell. We want to share it with you because it's so strong and in some ways familiar.
Zach Moss writes about the rise from heartache and addiction to redemption. He shares: 'I wrote this in a Christian rehab... I was basically crying out to God and the universe for help.' His debut album 'Dark to Light' is like a sunrise against the darkness of his past. As he sings about issues of faith, his songs soothe the suffering common to all. Coming up from small town SC, the multi-instrumentalist and producer is now one of Charlotte's most active artists.
One year ago @cauliflowerchasebrown and @sug_brown101 allowed Zach to nervously record this at @briarcliffsessions. 'I'd only played it a few times publicly, and because of how important it was to me, I was afraid to release it. It has since become one of my most requested songs.'
Zach Moss has a lot of things to tell, and he has always used music to express himself. He explains: 'When you're feeling emotionally dissonant and disaffected, what better way to vent than with an instrument, an amp, and a microphone? It's very exciting. Satisfying.' It also paved the path for him to build contacts in another growing area of his life's interest: drugs and alcohol.
Substance use seems to go hand-in-hand with music. 'Man, writing and playing in addiction…it was hard. Eventually, I had no instruments left to pawn. It felt like part of me was missing,' Zach expalins. 'The songs I wrote after that first trip to Rebound {rehab} – even with no instruments, I could hear the melodies and the lyrics in my head. I was full of them.'
'My next time at Rebound, they had gotten a piano, and so I wrote more songs there. All the songs on this record came so organically and easily, although it took years of work and attempts at staying clean and sober to get to this point,' said Zach. 'Hangman is one of the most difficult songs I’ve ever written. I did it in active addiction, and it mirrored my situation at the time. Lines on the Table I wrote as I was getting sober this last time – I kept losing friends to this disease. And it was a way for me to express some feelings about it.'
All that matters is that we end up at our destination and never give up. Zach is a true example of this.
Zach celebrated his two-year sobriety anniversary on October 9th. That's incredible. What's more incredible? 'Dark to Light,' his first professional album, was released on Saturday, October 15th.
'I was scared to share and show myself to people, but I'm sober now and this is how I live. As myself. Honestly.' When I asked him what made him pursue this album, his passion, his dream, now, he slowly smiled and replied, 'I always wanted to do this inside my heart. It never really went away. I was scared to share and show myself to people, but I’m sober now and this is how I live. As myself. Honestly. This album reflects how my life, and how I, have changed.'
He continued, 'It’s about overcoming that darkness – the long shadow addiction casts over your life and returning to that place of inner light you knew as a child. Being able to capture those moments and express them in a way that resonates. I want to experience life in a way I didn’t before. We can do that in sobriety. And I want to share that with others.'
(Quoting parts of an interview between Leslie Dorfman and Zach Moss: https://www.beyond-sober.com/post/songwriting-storytelling-and-sobriety-zach-moss)
You can listen to the track on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7LgJvjYEkT3LPSODEghmhN
Here is a link to the video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtiF-bIsG-M
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