Golden • Just Be A Better Person

The journey to this point has been a long one for our friend Mike Golden. Spending the better part of the last decade between bands and solo efforts, Golden has been a songwriter searching for his sound. As good as the music had been over the years, when talking to him in the days surrounding each of his previous album releases he never seemed fully satisfied, as if the final outputs didn't match his internal vision. 

That began to change last year, around the time he was featured on Surf, made "Talkin' Like That" with a sizable chunk of city's music community, became a staple at Stix Jam Nights & began to go by just Golden. The singles released in the surrounding months, "4 Year Interlude", "Mornin' Momma" & "Workin' On Myself", began to form a bridge into the new direction Golden was going both music and in life. Working alongside longtime producer Scot Stewart and new bandmate Irvin Pierce (saxophone, keyboard), Mike began to breakthrough in creating the music he's been aiming for. The result, a new album entitled Just Be A Better Person, is as energized as he is when talking about his music these days. It's contagious.

Loads of talent join Golden along the way on this project. In addition to all the great backing musicians, Donnie Trumpet makes a pair of appearances, Atlanta rapper Kelechi provides a crazy verse on "Too Funk to Drunktion" and Kweku Collins lends his talents to "Shade". Give the project a listen up top, but just a forewarning: this is music meant to be heard live. Golden blew us away at SXSW when we heard some of this material, we highly suggest you catch him tomorrow alongside Kelechi, Ric Wilson & oddCouple at Double Door.