The core of Long Way Home reverberates deep into LaMontagne’s youth—at 21-years-old, in a small club in Minneapolis, he recalls seeing Townes Van Zandt perform live. A line from “To Live Is To Fly” has stuck with him ever since; Van Zandt sang, “When here you been is good an gone, all you keep is the getting there.”“Thirty years later it occurs to me that every song on Long Way Home is in one way or another honoring the journey. The languorous days of youth and innocence. The countless battles o

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Smashing was one of the first songs I wrote in a batch of tunes that would become the Supernova album, songs that came about during a two year hiatus from touring and written while renting a small cottage for a week with my wife Sarah in a village on the coast of Maine. “Looking through the glass as the moon rolls over, church and steeple, hill and harbor, do you ever wonder what it is inside us? Do you ever wonder where it is inside us?” Clearly, I was still searching. But the crux of the tune