Tag: Confessional Songwriting

• The William Altig Choir: Blues Meets Buddhist Wisdom

  

  “Just to Cater to Your Whim” – The William Altig Choir Sometimes love looks like giving in. Sometimes compassion means meeting someone where they are, even when you know the path they’re walking won’t heal them. This song is about that impossible tightrope – when your heart can’t bear to see someone suffer, so you…

  William Altig

  November 10, 2025

  music

  acoustic ballad, acoustic blues, American roots, Americana, Blues Folk, blues storytelling, buddhist americana, buddhist blues, buddhist folk, buddhist music, Buddhist songwriter, compassion songs, Confessional Songwriting, contemplative music, dharma songs, enabling love, expedient means, fingerstyle guitar, folk ballad, folk dharma, gospel blues, intimate vocals, lotus sutra songs, parent child songs, pedal steel guitar, philosophical blues, roots music, slow blues, spiritual americana, spiritual blues, sutra music, teaching songs, traditional folk, William Altig Choir, wisdom songs

• Lay Your Shovel Down

  

  A Blues-Folk Song A blues-folk meditation on the exhaustion of trying to earn your worth through endless striving. This song walks through the valley of good intentions gone sour, calloused hands and hollow prayers, until a stranger by the roadside offers an ancient truth: the light you’ve been climbing toward was inside you all along.…

  William Altig

  November 3, 2025

  music

  acoustic folk, Americana, Blues, blues poetry, Confessional Songwriting, contemplative music, Dylan-esque, existential folk, Finger-Picked Guitar, Folk, folk ballad, Folk Spirituality, gospel blues, Grace and Surrender, Honest Songwriting, introspective lyrics, Lyric-Driven Folk, Modern Folk Hymn, philosophical blues, raw vocals, redemption song, roots music, Soul Searching, southern gospel, spiritual blues, Spiritual Seeking, storytelling song, Stripped Down Acoustic, traditional folk, wisdom tradition