I’m Russ, a lifelong music lover, storyteller, former radio DJ, multimedia creator with a deep appreciation for the songs that become part of our lives.

These days, much of what I create centers around recovery, reflection, humor, faith, resilience, and the strange little moments that connect us. Music has always been part of that journey. A song can take us back forty years, crack open a memory, change the way we see something, or somehow say what we couldn’t find the words to say ourselves.

Here on Mixcloud, I’m exploring that intersection of music and recovery through curated shows, stories, conversation, and the occasional trip down a very unexpected musical rabbit hole.

This isn’t an AA meeting and I don’t speak for any recovery organization. It’s simply one guy, a microphone, a lifetime of music, and an ongoing curiosity about what these songs have to say to us now.