Steve Abramowicz never planned to become a voice for the silenced. He was a Wall Street wealth manager with three decades of success, a comfortable life in Seattle, and no intention of rocking any boats.
Then COVID hit. His daughter's swim league mandated biological boys in girls' lanes. His synagogue voted 19-1 against him on every issue of basic sanity. And a dying newspaper publisher named Fred Fillbrook pointed at him from a hospital bed and said two words that changed everything: "Call Steve."
Songs About the Heartland is the story of what happens when an only child of Holocaust survivors, raised Jewish in California wine country, finds Jesus at fifty-one-and discovers his life's true calling as a podcaster giving voice to the canceled.
Through five hundred episodes, Steve interviewed the truth-tellers mainstream media refused to platform: Dr. Peter McCullough and Dr. Robert Malone on COVID protocols. Dr. Judy Mikovits on what the establishment doesn't want you to know. Riley Gaines on saving women's sports. Chloe Cole on de-transition and the lies of gender medicine. Kirk Cameron, Kevin Sorbo, John Schneider, and Dean Cain on faith in Hollywood. Nick Searcy and Dennis Quaid from the Reagan movie. Jennifer O'Neill on healing veterans. Martha Byrne, three-time Emmy winner, on being canceled for her beliefs.
FBI whistleblowers Steve Friend and Kyle Seraphin who exposed their own agency. Moms for Liberty founders Tiffany Justice and January Littlejohn fighting school boards. Bazzel Baz and Aaron Spradlin rescuing trafficked children from organizations like La Luz Del Mundo. Faith Casey walking the streets of Seattle that most people won't even drive through. Senator Marsha Blackburn on Tennessee values. Billy Falcon and Porter Martin on the soul of American songwriting.
Three generations. Same pattern. Grandma fled the Nazis. Dad survived Holocaust deportation camps in socialist Europe. Mom fled the decay of 1960s New York City. Steve fled Seattle's woke ideology for Franklin, Tennessee-two blocks from where Charlie Kirk once lived.
Featuring a foreword by former Alabama State Senator Hank Erwin, who calls it "a glass of iced tea in an age of cynicism." Inspired by George Strait's anthem to real country music and the people who still know wrong from right.
The book culminates with an original song, "Songs About the Heartland," co-written by Steve and chart-topping Nashville artist Porter Martin-whose single "Hell That I Call Home" hit #1 on CDX Trac True Indie the same day they finished writing together. Part Waylon, part testimony, all heart.
From Andrew Breitbart's legacy to Turning Point USA, from Bear Stearns to Main Street, from Governor Inslee's mandates to Attorney General Skrmetti's Supreme Court victory protecting children from irreversible gender surgeries-this book captures a movement of ordinary Americans who refused to stay silent.
Part memoir, part manifesto, part love letter to his children Liam and Frankie, this book weaves Steve's personal journey-from a USC Cinema-Television degree to cold-calling for $500 a month to managing portfolios for Microsoft and Intel executives, from fleeing Seattle to building a new life in Franklin, Tennessee-with the voices of those who paid the price for speaking truth.
Including a tribute to Charlie Kirk,
Songs About the Heartland is for anyone who has ever felt alone in seeing what's happening to America-and wondered if one voice could make a difference. The answer is yes. The heartland isn't a place. It's a people. And their song is just beginning.
