Eric Earley, frontman of Blitzen Trapper, recently did an interview with Street Roots about how his work in homeless services has influenced his art.

Earley works full time for Do Good Multnomah, a nonprofit organization that focuses on helping veterans in need. Through working at the nonprofit Earley states:

“I learned a lot in that place from the folks that I was working with. And a lot about myself I wouldn’t have learned otherwise. The general feeling that people have towards the homeless and folks who are on the street, it’s this kind of numbed, inaccurate view of who people are… Each and every person has this very distinct story. I would almost say 99% of them weren’t necessarily there because of choices they made that were their own, but choices made for them.”

Read the article online, or you can pick up the current Street Roots issue from a vendor: streetroots.org/vendors#locate