See late songwriter David Olney perform the character study “Jerusalem Tomorrow” in 2010
David Olney was a unique breed of songwriter, one who rarely revealed himself directly through his songs. Instead, the intimate details that emerged in his remarkable works focused on the emotional being of characters he himself seemed to be learning about as the stories unfolded. Yet because he knew their lives, their motivations, and their failings so instinctively, the details painted with his words were often startling.
Olney performed “Jerusalem Tomorrow” during an appearance on Nashville’s Music City Roots radio show in 2010, and in 2012, “I was discovering this guy, what’s he gonna do now? It was odd because it didn’t take a real long time to write that song. It seemed like I’d been following that guy forever, but I didn’t know who he was. [] So, the things that come as a surprise in the songs came as a surprise to me in the process of writing the songs.
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