Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

Got a great one for you this week.

A conversation with Marcus Mumford.

Yes, the founder of Mumford & Sons, that international sensation of a band.

With that foot stomping sound, Marcus once described it as all waist coats and banjos.

They had that look and that sound.

But now he is stepped away from the band temporarily.

I should point out he's getting back with the boys soon for another album.

For his own solo album, his first, called Self-Titled.

And man, it is really good and it is really, really personal.

Maybe you've seen some of the press around it or heard some other interviews or conversations

with him where he opens the album by talking about the sexual abuse he suffered as a child,

not from a family member or a member of the church.

He doesn't say who it was, but he does talk openly and publicly about it for the first

time.

And then the second song of the album, he talks about breaking that news to his mother

only recently.

Having thought years ago, he had told her about it, but it was the first she had heard

of it.

Really emotional and powerful stuff and it is sort of the full album goes from the first

song through ten and builds from the pain and the trauma of that first song toward forgiveness

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