Jeffrey Martin - There Is A Treasure | The Influences

Jeffrey Martin playing 'There Is A Treasure' for The Influences.

“Sometimes people ask me what the “treasure” is that I sing about in this song. I don’t know. It’s always moving. And can’t ever really be named. But it’s undeniably there. It’s that good ache in the throat when we are overcome both with the feeling of a great love and the knowing that it’ll be gone someday. It’s the absolute peace that sometimes stays around all night and makes us feel at ease with ourselves, and also the knowing that soon enough we’ll be anxious and uneasy and searching again. I was trying to write about the goodness of our being alive, and the unimaginable size and scope of the universe we exist in. For myself, I’ve come to find some deep peace in the fact that the mystery will always far outweigh our understanding. It forces a beautiful sort of surrender.”

Filmed at Bridie's Bar & General Store in Kilkenny, Ireland.
In collaboration with Kilkenny Roots Festival.

Filmed by Matthijs van der Ven and David Lawson Froggatt.
Audio recorded & mixed by Matthijs van der Ven.

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This was my song of the year in 2023. I love it. This is an exceptional performance of it, too. Thank you.