This is an intensely personal story of mental health recovery told by a master story-teller who is also blessed with a beautiful voice. Alone on a bare stage with only his acoustic, Chase kept the audience spell-bound, delivering the jokes with perfect comedic timing while silencing us appropriately when the story became dark.

Chase never became maudlin, which would have been easy given the subject matter.

It was a delightful hour spent and at the end I felt like he was someone with whom I’d like to go for a beer … or maybe a coffee.

I may have been the only one in the audience who had never previously been to a Chase Padgett show, but I understand why he regularly sells out.

He’ll be back in the area in October for another show and my friends and I have already made plans.