Langhorne Slim Finds Peace In The Chaos On 'Strawberry Mansion'
After getting help with his addiction and while pausing for the pandemic, Langhorne Slim found songs — happy, sad, anxious, joyful — to be pouring out of him like deep breaths.
Langhorne Slim is a singer-songwriter by trade — but for more than a year, he could barely write. Slim recalls only writing about a song and a half, and even then it was nothing presentable to others. He had quit drinking years before, but found himself addicted to prescription pills. "I had been numbing myself ... to the source of my own creativity," Slim says. "Really, to the source of love, you know?" So, Slim went into rehabilitation.
When he got out, it seemed like the world was falling apart: First, a deadly tornado hit his neighborhood in Nashville, Tenn. — then, the pandemic. To his own surprise, however,
