The track is the final one on the artists new debut album 8.
Armed just with his voice and a guitar, Jonny Glenn recounts his experience growing up in the American sound without a father figure on his emotional latest single ‘Like Father Like Son’.
The track is essentially the exciting newcomer baring his soul to the listener, essentially pouring his heart out on the final track of his debut album.
‘Like Father Like Son’ is slow burning and brooding, an almost conversational track where the artist dissects his past and his thoughts about it. It peaks and lulls a draws the listener into a thoroughly captivating piece of candid and immersive storytelling.
“My dad left when I was 4 years old,” he shares. “Then I grew up. Just my mom and me. It was just the two of us. I’m so thankful to have as strong of a mother as I do. As I’ve grown into myself and have been taking a deeper dive into myself, I’ve realized how the trauma of being abandoned affected me.
I grew up always thinking I was more mature than my peers (even though I was the youngest in my grade), or at least had to be. I thought that I was stronger than most. I had become the man of my house at a young age. An 8 year-old ‘man.’ As a kid, I had no idea how the events of my young life would shape my behavior through adolescence and into becoming a young adult and into my first significant relationships. I made a few mistakes along the way, some of which I thought were similar to those my dad had made and would lead me down a similar path. That scared me.
This song is about that – not wanting to be like my dad. And not making any of the mistakes he did. As ironic as it sounds, by facing my fears and my past, I’ve been able to start breaking the cycle of acting unconsciously and have given my true self a chance of rebirth. No longer do I need to react in order to survive. Through this long process, I am starting to learn how to just be. That has been a true blessing and I feel like I am the closest to true happiness that I’ve ever been.”
