These songs ... music as a celebration of life. Still, jams like "HOT TO GO!" by Chappell Roan or "Life Is a Highway" by Rascal Flatts may not exactly send the right message for a funeral.

Nonetheless, 19 years after the song ... indie music and my early era SoundCloud remixes helped shape my sound as an artist. Late last year, I rediscovered Band of Horses’ “The Funeral ...