Life is often directed by split-second twists-of-fate that blindside our most mundane moments. Yet it need not be defined by them. Just ask The Ghost Inside. The journey between Jake’s Sports Bar in Lubbock, Texas and the Phoenix, Arizona’s Nile Theater – stops on 2015’s domestic run dubbed ‘The Locals Only Tour’ for its focus on provincial support – was supposed to be another sleepy slog, surrounded by the desolate beauty of the Southwestern Fall. It only took the blink of an eye on the morning of November 19 for two lives to be lost and all of their futures permanently re-shaped as tour bus collided with semi truck on Highway 180. 1,650 days later – the band count sunrises as if to maintain perspective on that fateful one – their story continues to unfold. Trauma, they have gro...
