@sakeofdrama Not according to Ben during a live solo acoustic set in Little Rock in August of 2014 when he played a rare alcohol free show for 300 at the seated Ron Robinson Theater. Although he played Ron Robinson again solo this year, the 2014 show was different than any past Lucero or Nichols show I've been to. It was no Storytellers but he did talk quite a bit between songs and The War and Mom were two he went into some detail on his songwriting process or inspiration. He didn't talk to his grandfather much before...
@sakeofdrama Not according to Ben during a live solo acoustic set in Little Rock in August of 2014 when he played a rare alcohol free show for 300 at the seated Ron Robinson Theater. Although he played Ron Robinson again solo this year, the 2014 show was different than any past Lucero or Nichols show I've been to. It was no Storytellers but he did talk quite a bit between songs and The War and Mom were two he went into some detail on his songwriting process or inspiration. He didn't talk to his grandfather much before he passed away, esspecially about things like his being in WWII. He said when he got old enough for it to interest him his grandfather was gone. He wanted to write a song for his family that included about his grandfathers military service, so to make it as factual as possible he tried to track down his official military records but they unfortunately were lost in some fire or flood years before. He finally tracked down any living person known to have knowledge about his grandfather's military service trying to know him the best he could. After that he says he mixed fact with fiction and came out with The War, which in the is not an exact incident that happened on a certain date or even at all. It is a story inspired by stories by, to my understanding, men that knew or served with Ben's grandpa.
This song is about Ben's grandfather. It's basically Ben retelling a story his grandfather told him.
@sakeofdrama Not according to Ben during a live solo acoustic set in Little Rock in August of 2014 when he played a rare alcohol free show for 300 at the seated Ron Robinson Theater. Although he played Ron Robinson again solo this year, the 2014 show was different than any past Lucero or Nichols show I've been to. It was no Storytellers but he did talk quite a bit between songs and The War and Mom were two he went into some detail on his songwriting process or inspiration. He didn't talk to his grandfather much before...
@sakeofdrama Not according to Ben during a live solo acoustic set in Little Rock in August of 2014 when he played a rare alcohol free show for 300 at the seated Ron Robinson Theater. Although he played Ron Robinson again solo this year, the 2014 show was different than any past Lucero or Nichols show I've been to. It was no Storytellers but he did talk quite a bit between songs and The War and Mom were two he went into some detail on his songwriting process or inspiration. He didn't talk to his grandfather much before he passed away, esspecially about things like his being in WWII. He said when he got old enough for it to interest him his grandfather was gone. He wanted to write a song for his family that included about his grandfathers military service, so to make it as factual as possible he tried to track down his official military records but they unfortunately were lost in some fire or flood years before. He finally tracked down any living person known to have knowledge about his grandfather's military service trying to know him the best he could. After that he says he mixed fact with fiction and came out with The War, which in the is not an exact incident that happened on a certain date or even at all. It is a story inspired by stories by, to my understanding, men that knew or served with Ben's grandpa.