Healing Bridges by Brian Koenigsknecht

After the sudden death of his father and while reconsidering his musical journey, Brian Koenigsknecht began writing and arranging songs for Healing Bridges. A shared love for music began when Brian was 9, and his father taught him to play the guitar on the very same 1976 Guild D-50 that is the primary instrument on Healing Bridges. Sparse acoustic arrangements only accentuate the strength of his emotional vocal performance. There are echoes of Springsteen’s “Nebraska” and Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon” as the stories stretch over a landscape of glowing reverb. Literature and national parks are also referenced as a tribute to more influences and shared passions of his father. Except for the “Windmill,” co-written and recorded with Michael Beauchamp-Cohen in an earlier session, all the songs were recorded on the first anniversary of his father’s death during a 4 hour session, at La Luna Recording & Sound by Ian Gorman. While death and displacement are certainly themes on Healing Bridges, there is a consistent celebration of life shining through each song. Healing Bridges is an album for those mourning the loss of life, the loss of love, the loss of friendship, and the loss of oneself. It reminds us that there is a power in remembering and that there are moments of awakening and redemption along the grieving road. It’s from both these dark and light spaces in the soul that Koenigsknecht’s strongest and most honest work to date has emerged.

Brian Koenigknecht is a Michigan treasure, that rare breed of singer-songwriter who can make you feel every human emotion – every tear, every smile – so intensely that you feel he’s written his songs about you. – John Sinkevics, LocalSpins.com