Slaid Cleaves

Writes and records songs that strike people’s hearts and become a part of their lives. Links to the new album, "Together Through the Dark" at

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I just checked out my Twitter analytics for the first time. Turns out my followers are interested in, above all other topics, dogs. So here you go. You're welcome.

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@johnvarney1 Congrats. Just a few more months for us.

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@ThunderRdFan99 @softtail65 When Slaid Cleaves, is he bringing together or tearing apart?

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@johnvarney1 @JVMonte2 Thanks buddy.

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@johnvarney1 @Babywwir 19. My family never owned an encyclopedia. But we did have a black and white TV with “rabbit ears.“

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@tomricks1 How long did it take you to read Suttree the first time?

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A reader wrote to me and said that, ever since I posted a @slaidc song last year, she's gone down a rabbit hole of Slaid's music. She thanked me for posting the song. Aren't you soul gladdened, somehow, when something really speaks to you and you turn somebody else on to it and you may have completely forgotten that you ever even mentioned it but then later they thank you for it? You think "hey, somebody else out there gets it," like you have a new spiritual kinsman in the universe. It feels good.

Shown here: A photo I took of Slaid onstage at Poodies Roadhouse in Spicewood back in 2017.

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@LACKIMELODIE Thanks, Johnny. Maybe Portland in October …

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That’s Beatrice the duck. Guarding my gear, and a couple of eggs, at the entrance to the Holiday Inn in Tomball, Texas.

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@caleb_caudle Next album cover?

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@ThunderRdFan99 @ThatEricAlper What an honor, Joe!

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@RobbieFulks Our old stomping grounds. Mention Karen and Slaid for a smattering of applause …

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@johnvarney1 @JVMonte2 Wow!
My mom took me to see Southside Johnny when I was 16.

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@TracesofTexas I moved halfway across the country to Texas pretty much just to open shows for Joe and try to learn the trade.

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@johnvarney1 Thanks! Not likely. Staying close to home in semi-retirement.

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@johnvarney1 A few years ago I heard that a girl used that verse in her Bat Mitzvah.

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@TracesofTexas I lived next to Oakwood for 12 years and got to know the names of some of my “neighbors:” Prosper Humbert, Ainsley Simcock, Asher Smoot, Rispah Redd, and Olivia Manlove, to name a few I remember.

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@johnvarney1 “Reluctantly optimistic” - S King

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@TerribleMaps Whew.

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@TracesofTexas 2/3 of my song “Temporary” is lifted directly from epitaphs. Wish I’d known about this one.

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@TracesofTexas One of a kind.