Several years back, David sat for an interview with the RT program Watching The Hawks. His episode was part of a series highlighting politics in music. Got an itch to break out the live performances from David and his band - included here now to listen to.

from the RT website: On this special episode of “Watching the Hawks”, Tyrel Ventura & Tabetha Wallace interview musician and artist David Baerwald on his long and storied career and his views on the modern music industry. David performs his songs “If Only,”“Baby Blue,” & “If I Had My Way.” 

Singer-songwriter David Baerwald said that music and a deep-seated passion for its power was instilled in him during childhood, as the son of classical musicians.

"My bedroom happened to be right under the living room" where his parents would play in string trios, he said of his life as a boy.  "I was lying in my bed, just how beautiful it was … it just devastated me to my core."

Music, Baerwald said, "was like in my blood stream, I would quiver all night, I wouldn't be able to sleep." 

At age 15, he was a roadie for the seminal punk rock band The Weirdos, then went on to form his own punk band, The Spastics. Later, he would step away from a successful musical career for three years to work as an investigative journalist covering a series of murders related to the US Navy and Marine Corps.

"Reaching out and not making people feel alone, that is a hugely valuable thing that music can do," he said of where art and ideals collide, mentioning David Bowie as an example of the kind of artist that could communicate to the disaffected.