Getting Away From The Gig: New App Aims To Help Touring Musicians Stay In Recovery

July 31, 2018

The path to substance recovery is difficult for anyone, but for touring musicians, there are additional hurdles. A new app wants to change that.

Chris Tait

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The path to substance recovery is difficult for many folks, but for touring musicians, there are additional hurdles to maintain sobriety like constantly changing schedules.

Chris Tait of longtime Detroit rockers Electric Six launched Passenger in 2015 to help fellow musicians to find recovery support in cities across the U.S.

Now, he’s crowdsourcing funding to launch an app to allow those on tour to quickly and easily find a recovery meeting in unfamiliar locations.

CultureShift’s Amanda LeClaire spoke with Tait about the Compass recovery app.

Author

  • Amanda LeClaire is an award-winning journalist and managing editor and lead reporter of WDET's new environmental series, the Detroit Tree Canopy Project, as well as WDET's CuriosiD podcast. She was the host of WDET’s CultureShift and a founding producer of the station’s flagship news talk show *Detroit Today*. Amanda also served as a Morning Edition host at WDET and previously worked as a host, audio and video producer, and reporter for Arizona Public Media.

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