Catch Prichard - I Still Miss Theresa Benoit (2021)

Sawyer Gebauer is an anxious man. As Catch Prichard frontman, he seems to quake with deeply-rooted angst as evidenced through the group’s new song “Worried Man”, the last single ahead of their debut record I Still Miss Theresa Benoit. I’m a worried man / I eat myself to the bone / Can’t drink no more / Cause it swims in my head, he sings with a gravelly bellow.

Thematically, the track “dovetails with generations of songs,” offers Gebauer, “and captures the familiar yet unconscious archetype that runs through every human. Whether Sage or Outlaw, the anxiety most of us feel is both perpetual and prehistoric, rooted in the belief that something savage is out there, hidden, powerful, waiting for our demise to feed its own survival.”

“While untrue, the traitorous ghost lives,” the Oakland-based musician tells American Songwriter. With decorative horn blasts and light percussion, “Worried Man” fully displays Gebauer’s “own brawl with anxiety that [I] could neither name nor understand, and through these experiences, this storied song was born. We are narrative and fiction. We are self-creations; constructs of phrases we recite and morals we uphold that form who and what we call ‘ourselves.'”