The Pain And The Power is an unflinching documentary portrait of artist, activist, and survivor Logan Lynn, tracing a 30-year career forged at the intersection of queerness, faith, addiction, trauma, and self-reinvention. Structured around the songs from Lynn’s latest record of the same name, the film treats music not as background but as a living character.
Beginning in rural Nebraska and Texas inside a fundamentalist Christian world hostile to any type of difference, the film follows Lynn’s early sense of displacement, religious trauma, and abuse, and the ways secrecy and fear shaped both identity and survival. Through intimate interviews with Lynn, and decades of archival footage and home movies, the film charts a restless trajectory: early success, underground acclaim, addiction, public collapse, and the slow, deliberate work of rebuilding a life on one’s own terms.
Behind the scenes footage from early music videos, vintage tour clips, and present-day studio conversations collide with moments of humor, tenderness, and brutal honesty. The result is neither a redemption arc nor a nostalgia piece, but a meditation on what it means to outlive the versions of yourself that no longer serve you.
The Pain And The Power asks what remains after belief systems fail, relationships end, and the spotlight moves on; and how art can transform damage into something communal, generous, and alive.
COMING SOON
We finished my new record, The Pain And The Power, on Tuesday night, and the studio I work out of here in Portland burned down on Wednesday, less than 24 hours later. I am feeling very grateful that Pretty Baby and I were not there when the fire happened and that no one else was hurt. Also feeling so lucky that we finished when we did and that my new music is not one of the many, MANY things that has been lost in the fire.
I made the Distracted EP at Burn Money Studios, as well as the Rock and Roll City single, and this new collection of songs I’ve been working on this year. This special place has been my musical home for a long time now and I love all of the people who have been affected by this devastating loss. It’s kind-of unimaginable, but I went over there today and saw it with my own eyes. It’s all gone.
My friends iLoveMakonnen, Yellow Trash Can, and so many others have dedicated countless hours to building that spot into the community hub it is today. This is not just a loss for the music scene. This is a loss for PDX.
I am sitting here with the hard drive we loaded up at the end of that session on Tuesday — perhaps the last record to ever come out of the studio before it was destroyed — and I need to do something to help, right now.
We have big plans for The Pain And The Power, all of which will still be happening…but ahead of any of that, I have decided to release the first track TODAY as a @Bandcamp exclusive and a 100% fundraiser for my Burn Money Studios family who will be out of work for the foreseeable future. The price is $5 but if you can pay more, please do. I will be giving all of the proceeds from this single toward supporting the rebuild.
Music is love.
Support your local crews and workers.
Thank you to Burn Money Music for everything you have done (and will still do) for Portland’s music community. I love you and am here for you, with you. Gonna take a lot more than a fire to take this magic out.
xo
Logan
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