You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
Kevin Morby is a singer and songwriter based in Kansas City.
He's put out seven albums since 2013, including his most recent one,
This Is a Photograph, which just came out this May.
For this episode, I talk to Kevin about the title track from This is a Photograph.
It's a story about his family, the pandemic,
and memories of times that have happened and times that haven't happened yet.
My name is Kevin Morby.
I was getting ready to leave for a long tour.
And we'd gotten together at a family dinner that we were having at my sister's house with her kids and my parents.
And we were just having this sort of seeing them before a big trip dinner.
And at some point in the middle of eating dinner, my sister was telling a story.
And while she was telling this story, my dad just got up and started to walk away.
And when we all looked over at him, he just sort of fell over.
He hit his head against the wall, and it was this sort of terrifying, chaotic moment.
I jumped up from the table and I went over to my dad and I held his head and my mom was calling the ambulance and eventually the ambulance came and they took him away and he went to the hospital and he ended up being okay.
But at the end of the night, you know,
we were all still a little shook from this and we went to my parents' house.