“I went to Record and Tape Outlet, and I bought the cassette,” he said. As a teen-ager, he saw the video for the Indigo Girls’ twangy, jubilant hit “Closer to Fine,” and felt transformed. I grew up enjoying the sound of an acoustic guitar and a good story being told,” he said. “John Denver, Judy Collins, Peter, Paul, and Mary. (“I’m not the youngest groom of all time,” he joked.) The change of circumstances gives the new songs a kind of buoyancy.Īs a kid, Radnor listened to his mother’s record collection. “Which was weird, because I was on a show that was all about a guy wanting that so badly.” Halfway through the sessions for “Eulogy,” Radnor met someone they’re now engaged. I was, like, I don’t know how to do this, or if I want to do this,” he said of pursuing a serious relationship. “When I got off the show, I was approaching forty. These are little elegies for the canoes that got me across the river.”įor nine seasons, from 2005 to 2014, Radnor played Ted Mosby, the hapless, scruffy-haired lead on the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother.” The character-and the series-was preoccupied with the notion of true love. “There’s a Buddhist thing: once you’re across the river, drop the canoe. “Each song is a kind of mini-funeral for some part of myself that served me for a time, and then was no longer necessary,” Radnor, who is forty-nine, said, as he sat on a bench overlooking one of Green-Wood’s glacial ponds. Earlier this fall, he released “Eulogy: Volume 1,” a collection of tender, disarming folk and rock songs he recorded last year, while processing a breakup and attempting to conjure a whole new future for himself. The actor, filmmaker, and musician Josh Radnor recently visited Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, a historic burying ground, established in 1838, where Jean-Michel Basquiat, Leonard Bernstein, Boss Tweed, and the rapper Pop Smoke have all been laid to rest.
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