{"id":30973,"date":"2016-12-12T10:16:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T15:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=30973"},"modified":"2019-11-20T16:28:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T21:28:50","slug":"musician-russell-james-pyle-03-spends-november-artist-residence-big-bend-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/musician-russell-james-pyle-03-spends-november-artist-residence-big-bend-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Musician Russell James Pyle &#8217;03 spends November as artist-in-residence at Big Bend National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_30977\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30977\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/12\/musician-russell-james-pyle-03-spends-november-artist-residence-big-bend-national-park\/john-henry\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30977\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30977\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/12\/john-henry-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"John Henry on the Volcanoes Trail, west of Albuquerque. (Photo by Russell James Pyle)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/12\/john-henry-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/12\/john-henry-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/12\/john-henry.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Henry on the Volcanoes Trail, west of Albuquerque. (Photo by Russell James Pyle)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Editor\u2019s note: <em>The somewhat unorthodox narrative of the following article deserves explanation. Staff writer Randi B. Hagi was regrettably unable to travel 1,750 miles for an in-person interview with New Mexico resident and professional musician <strong>Russell James Pyle \u201803<\/strong>. She had to settle for a phone interview, which Pyle obliged to while hiking with his dog John Henry in the Sandia Mountain Wilderness Area near his Albuquerque home. The experience of vicariously walking with John Henry and learning more about Pyle \u201cseemed like the best way to introduce readers to him,\u201d Hagi said later.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p>Russell James Pyle is just a few days distant from his month-long artist residency in Big Bend National Park in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo quote Ron Swanson [from the television comedy \u201cParks and Rec\u201d], \u2018the national parks are probably the only branch of the federal government worth a d**n,\u2019\u201d says Pyle.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"highlight highlight-right\">See <a href=\"http:\/\/russelljamespyle.com\/\">photos and tour schedule, hear music and learn more<\/a>.<\/aside>\n<p>A regular national park visitor, he discovered the <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalparksartsfoundation.org\">National Parks Arts Foundation<\/a>\u2019s Artist in Residency program while at Mesa Verde National Park last summer. After returning home, he researched online, and applied the same afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout November, Pyle hiked the canyon backcountry every morning, wrote songs in the afternoon, and discussed creative processes with fellow resident artist Nick Collier at night.<\/p>\n<p>The artist-in-residency program honors the important legacy of artists-turned-conservationists. From Yosemite\u2019s initiation as a tourist destination in the mid-1800s, \u201cthe artists were the ones who got people to go to the national parks\u201d with the paintings and pictographs they sent to the East Coast, Pyle explains.<\/p>\n<p>Big Bend, he says, \u201cis a place of healing, and it is a place of majesty, and people wouldn\u2019t know that if artists weren\u2019t coming back from this place and showing it to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30984\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30984\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/12\/musician-russell-james-pyle-03-spends-november-artist-residence-big-bend-national-park\/russell-james-pyle-landscapes-1000px_0000_img_6075\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30984\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30984\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/12\/Russell-James-Pyle-landscapes-1000px_0000_IMG_6075-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Performing at Big Bend National Park at the Rio Grande Amphitheater on Thanksgiving weekend. (Photo by Deborah Good)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/12\/Russell-James-Pyle-landscapes-1000px_0000_IMG_6075-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/12\/Russell-James-Pyle-landscapes-1000px_0000_IMG_6075-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/12\/Russell-James-Pyle-landscapes-1000px_0000_IMG_6075.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Performing at Big Bend National Park at the Rio Grande Amphitheater on Thanksgiving weekend. (Photo by Deborah Good)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>Pyle pauses the interview to instruct John Henry, an Australian Shepherd-Golden Retriever mix, to remove his nose from a cholla cactus.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The month provided introspection, personal rejuvenation, songwriting inspiration and outdoor recreation. Under the terms of the residency, Pyle also gave two programs over Thanksgiving weekend at the park\u2019s amphitheaters. These talks were an opportunity for Pyle to meld his varied talents, interests and influences: he merged musical performance with his professional background in ecopsychology (Pyle is a licensed counselor, though not currently practicing).<\/p>\n<p>One audience member left this comment: \u201cA <u>true<\/u> connection was made with the natural world by his deep lyrics and appropriate interpretation techniques. I actually wept for a moment and left feeling in touch with this park and my inner-self.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30983\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30983\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/12\/musician-russell-james-pyle-03-spends-november-artist-residence-big-bend-national-park\/russell-james-pyle-landscapes-1000px_0001_img_5501\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30983\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30983 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/12\/Russell-James-Pyle-landscapes-1000px_0001_IMG_5501-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"russell-james-pyle-landscapes-1000px_0001_img_5501\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/12\/Russell-James-Pyle-landscapes-1000px_0001_IMG_5501-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/12\/Russell-James-Pyle-landscapes-1000px_0001_IMG_5501-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/12\/Russell-James-Pyle-landscapes-1000px_0001_IMG_5501.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ocotillo with Santa Elena Canyon in the background, Big Bend National Park. (Photo by Russell James Pyle)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the intersection of the natural world and the self, Pyle believes, is a great source of emotional healing. This healing, first experienced through fly fishing, changed his own life. As a practicing psychotherapist, Pyle had begun a PhD program in counseling education, where he encountered the field of ecopsychology and eco-counseling. But the academic approach to mental health felt inauthentic. The calm and focus experienced on the water and his growing interest in outdoorsmanship led him out of graduate school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy connecting with the natural world, you\u2019re able to help heal the mind,\u201d says Pyle. \u201cEcopsychology has become this very strong source of faith, and of truth and control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pyle\u2019s struggle with depression is part of why the southwestern desert speaks to the Lancaster, Pa. native.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe desert is overflowing with metaphor in general, but one of the metaphors that speaks out to me the most is struggle,\u201d says Pyle, naming scorpions, thorny plants and thirst among the antagonists. \u201cI have gone through so much struggle in my life. I\u2019m conditioned for that \u2026 I want to write songs that are going to reflect the depression, but are also going to reflect that things are going to get better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Henry takes off running to a pile of bear scat and Pyle, catching his breath, admonishes the dog for his questionable taste.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pyle admits he has a \u201cmusical pedigree.\u201d His mother was a classical pianist, his father played the trumpet, and his grandfather was the conductor of a big band in the \u201830s and \u201840s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was forced to play piano. I hated it,\u201d says Pyle.<\/p>\n<p>At 12, he found an old ukulele in the attic. Thinking it was a miniature guitar, Pyle took fishing line, strung the missing fourth string, and \u201chad already picked out a major scale\u201d by the time his parents got home that evening.<\/p>\n<p>Thankful their piano-hating son showed musical talent, his parents bought him a guitar. Pyle taught himself to play and began various bands with his friends at Lancaster Mennonite High School.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30985\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30985\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/12\/musician-russell-james-pyle-03-spends-november-artist-residence-big-bend-national-park\/russell-james-pyle-landscapes-1000px_0003_img_6143\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30985\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30985\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/12\/Russell-James-Pyle-landscapes-1000px_0003_IMG_6143-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset over Glen Springs, Big Bend National Park. (Photo by Russell James Pyle)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/12\/Russell-James-Pyle-landscapes-1000px_0003_IMG_6143-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/12\/Russell-James-Pyle-landscapes-1000px_0003_IMG_6143-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/12\/Russell-James-Pyle-landscapes-1000px_0003_IMG_6143.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunset over Glen Springs, Big Bend National Park. (Photo by Russell James Pyle)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Those relationships, including that with his best friend and future wife Deborah Good \u201802, took him to EMU. There, he met Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/grimsrud\">Ted Grimsrud<\/a> (now emeritus professor of peace theology), who noted Pyle\u2019s interest in music and advised him to join a physics of music course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was so much math, and so little music,\u201d Pyle bemoans, adding that he never took another music class.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the poor advice, Grimsrud and Pyle became good friends. Their friendship has also overcome some questionable musical recommendations (Grimsrud did not care for Nickel Creek) and also one of Pyle\u2019s college-era performances, which Grimsrud remembers as \u201cjust shouting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has regained his credibility since then, both with the evolution of his music and his recommendations,\u201d jokes Grimsrud. \u201cHis new, solo stuff is impressive. He&#8217;s a thoughtful writer, going back, I&#8217;m sure, to the deep lessons in theology he got from me and [Professor] Christian Early! .\u2026 Now he&#8217;s got some real sensitivity, perhaps borne out of the challenging experiences he&#8217;s had in the years in between.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Pyle stops to pick up a plastic bottle, now understanding why so many park rangers are grumpy.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey work so hard to educate people and protect the land, and people trash it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He has had a rough few days adjusting back to the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was struck by noise. I\u2019m not just talking about audio noise,\u201d he says. Groups of people were overwhelming, lights were too bright, sounds were too loud. After being curt with a cashier, Pyle stopped to reflect.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30986\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30986\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2016\/12\/musician-russell-james-pyle-03-spends-november-artist-residence-big-bend-national-park\/russell-james-pyle-landscapes-1000px_0002_img_5908\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30986\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30986 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/12\/Russell-James-Pyle-landscapes-1000px_0002_IMG_5908-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"russell-james-pyle-landscapes-1000px_0002_img_5908\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/12\/Russell-James-Pyle-landscapes-1000px_0002_IMG_5908-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/12\/Russell-James-Pyle-landscapes-1000px_0002_IMG_5908-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2016\/12\/Russell-James-Pyle-landscapes-1000px_0002_IMG_5908.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rio Grande tumbling through the mouth of the Santa Elena Canyon, Big Bend National Park. (Photo by Russell James Pyle)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou had a literal \u2018mountaintop experience,\u2019 emotionally,\u201d he told himself. \u201cWho came back from Big Bend? Because it\u2019s not the same person that left Albuquerque.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His study of ecopsychology informed him that, after being in the wilderness, people often feel despair in the bustle of society. In exchange, Pyle gained resilience from Big Bend, and the prioritization of experiential over material wealth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat noise is the opposite of who I am,\u201d Pyle says of the rushed consumerist mindset. He can use that contrast to help him \u201cfocus to create, heal myself, and help those around me, in my community. The noise doesn\u2019t have to grind me down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Henry is now cruising through boulders where Pyle can\u2019t follow. Pyle calls him back. John Henry ignores this. The dog\u2019s stubbornness means that becoming a nationally touring, support dog to his human is challenging at best. Pyle laments the situation.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pyle is far from being ground down. He heads off <a href=\"http:\/\/russelljamespyle.com\/shows\/\">on tour<\/a> in mid-December, which will take him to 13 states, including Harrisonburg, Virginia. In January, he lands in Birmingham, Alabama, to record his second LP, and he\u2019s back home in Albuquerque for a Feb. 4 performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s note: The somewhat unorthodox narrative of the following article deserves explanation. Staff writer Randi B. 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