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In the spring of 2020, Ben Cook — a.k.a. Young Governor, Young Guv, or just Guv — was holed up in the New Mexico high desert, his U.S. tour having been abruptly covid-cancelled during a southwest swing. He and his bandmates were living mo-ment to moment in something called an Earthship, a solar-rigged adobe structure sus-tainably constructed with, among other things, recycled bottles and tires. And out there in the serene vastness, as a short ride-it-out stint turned into a nine-month so-journ, Ben was writing music, slowly, little by little, mostly at night while the others slept. By the New Year, almost in spite of himself, he had created a new album, two new albums actually, and through the ordeal he was forever changed.
In a place he never expected to be, under circumstances no one could have pre-dicted, and in the face of physical isolation, emotional desolation, and existential dread, Ben created GUV III & IV, a collection of songs dedicated and testifying to the eternal healing power of love — how to find it in the world, in others, and most im-portantly, in himself. Written in the New Mexico wilderness and produced in Los An-geles, the double album will be released on Run For Cover later next year.
In a place he never expected to be, under circumstances no one could have pre-dicted, and in the face of physical isolation, emotional desolation, and existential dread, Ben created GUV III & IV, a collection of songs dedicated and testifying to the eternal healing power of love — how to find it in the world, in others, and most im-portantly, in himself. Written in the New Mexico wilderness and produced in Los An-geles, the double album will be released on Run For Cover later next year.
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