Peter appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe, along with Hometown Advisory Board member Piper Perabo, talking about The Hometown Project's work in New Jersey and Virginia in 2023, and how the organization got started.
The video is here.
With even multiplatinum musicians complaining about the music industry squeeze, this cinematic troubador - and insider favorite - is making a name for himself by working outside the system. Edward Norton finds out how.
Most artists resign themselves, on some level, to the suspicion that the work they create is going to be appreciated best by total strangers; that family and friends, even the most supportive, will always be a little more aware of the effort behind it and be able to pierce the veil of art because of their intimacy with the source. Maybe this is especially true for actors or singers or anyone who has to be the instrument of their own piece.
So when an old friend drops something on you that really knocks you out, it's a special kind of dual pleasure; pride, because you've been through it all with them and there's a little part of you in there too, and humility, because it reminds you that you can't take a friend for granted - that as well as you may know someone, you don't really know the first thing about their private depths, their longings or their dark places. When you stand in the crowd with everyone else and think "Holy shit, where'd that come from?" That's when friendship founded in shared experience and good times is reforged with real respect.
These things are on my mind when I think of Peter Salett.
- Edward Norton
It's easy to understand why the accessible sounds of New York singer-songwriter Peter Salett often serve as cinematic backdrops... On songs of loneliness and love lost, Salett proves that less is indeed more, letting his rich vocals soar over a sole piano accompaniment or spare acoustics. His every yearning and pang feels like your own.