You’ll Never Walk Alone
Jan 27, 2026
Hey,
I hope you’re doing well. What a week this past one has been, between recording sessions, long conversations with Alex over the phone while doing my daily 10k steps in the church, and what happened in the news around the world...!
Like our now superstar Prime Minister Mike Carney said at the Davos World Economic Forum, "And we are no longer relying on just the strength of our values, but also on the value of our strength. And we are building that strength at home."
Here’s what happened at “home” for us last week...
🎧 Music I’m listening to
Counting Crows - Have You Seen Me Lately from the album Across a Wire (Live from New York City)
Every time we head back into a creative process, Alex always invites us all to watch, read, or listen to something inspiring, often aligned with what stands ahead on our creative journey. Distance doesn't matter anymore, even if Alex is still in Tangier, we’re all back working remotely on what will be his next album, which I truly can’t wait to start sharing with you.
This time, Alex invited us all to watch this HBO documentary about the band Counting Crows called Music Box: Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately?
Alex has always been a great fan of the Counting Crows ever since I can remember. For us to watch their musical and personal journey truly was inspiring, as regardless of their 20 million albums sold and singer Adam Duritz going out with Courteney Cox, Mary-Louise Parker, Samantha Mathis, and Jennifer Aniston, I see many similarities...! :)
📖 Reading highlight I’m pondering
Never give up on a dream
just because of the time
it will take to accomplish it.
- Earl Nightingale
This quote feels like a mirror held up to everything that brought this band and every other project we have into existence.
Nothing meaningful in Alex Henry Foster’s world ever arrived quickly. The songs always take weeks, even months, to ripen. The long detours, the countless fractures, the years waiting, none of it was wasted time. It was time becoming the work. Even the silences were as formative as the sounds.
And this Club didn’t appear overnight either. It grew from patience, conviction, and that quiet insistence that some things are worth protecting long before they make sense to anyone else, especially in 2020 as COVID got us locked in for months. This is part of the story too.
The truth is: time will pass whether we dare to commit or not. The only real choice is whether we allow that passing time to shape something honest, fragile, and deeply rooted in something meaningful, or let it slip by — untouched.
Everything we do exists because a few people chose devotion over urgency, depth over speed, and meaning even over momentum.
And that choice continues. Every day. Hopefully for you as well...!
🎧 Podcast That Inspired Me
Alex and I had the huge privilege to meet the incredible artist, gentleman, and inspiring human being that is Lee Ranaldo. Sonic Youth impacted us both on every possible and imaginable level, but sharing a coffee or any kind of moment with Lee Ranaldo always brings us to leave differently than when we sat down initially.
Lee interviewed Alex in a Brooklyn apartment in May of 2021. He was kind enough to spend an entire afternoon during COVID times to have a proper sit-down with Alex, asking him questions about his life and artistic journey. We never released this interview yet, but this was a moment that completely changed us forever.
Lee is one of those people who seem to pretty much always get the best out of others around him. Truly inspiring to me.
📸 My Picture Of The Week
Cheers to you, Alex! You’ll Never Walk Alone with Liverpool FC!
If you haven’t read Alex’s Substack entry called I Hate Football, So Why Am I So Emotional About It? I’m NOT a Fan!!! Now would be a good time to do so!
💬 Shared in the Long Shadows Chat this week
Feels like last week’s chat, now that I’m thinking about it again, has been raging nonstop for days! Alex sent us countless messages from you regarding your precious and loved home pets, favorite football clubs, and why this sport means something to you, and, of course, these World Economic Forum speeches by which we all have also been targeted online in grand fashion.
To me, even if I’m a real sucker for geopolitics, culture, and history, what matters the most is us, the people, always negotiating hard with what those world leaders are simply dumping on us from very far above.
As Alex shared last week:
“This willingness to live meaningfully contributed to nurturing the hope I had completely lost in the sole possibility of better tomorrows, which I have now, not only for me, but for my loved ones, the people I care about, as much as for the neighbors I’m taking a moment to share with as I’m leaving my home, or the strangers I’m smiling to when I free myself from the otherwise fast-paced stream I too often tend to enslave my heart and mind to, depriving my longing soul of human connection and the possibility to be smiled at back.”
You can be a leftist, a rightist, or a centrist voting red, blue, yellow, green, orange, or something else — let’s connect — let’s talk! :)
Let’s be great to one another!
Your friend and Chief Operator,
Jeff
