CreatiVets is a non-profit program based in Nashville that empowers "wounded veterans to heal through arts and music."
Country star George Strait, a veteran himself, has been involved in recent years drawing attention to their work, particularly through a project that unites CreatiVets with his latest album, Cowboys and Dreamers. As U.S. Army veteran Bart Crow explained in an Instagram video, he has been involved in a program where each participant was given a Strait song as inspiration for the guitar they designed.
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Crow is a veteran of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He explains in the video that when his PTSD was "getting the better of [him]," a friend explained CreatiVets and asked if he would want to join.
"It was an awesome experience. It was one of the best experiences of my life. I've been invited back to CreatiVets this week to participate in a program that George Strait is involved in, where we're doing art for guitars, and we each were given a song. The song I was given is 'People Get Hurt Sometimes,'" said Crow.
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He became emotional because he is personally going through a divorce right now, and that's also kind of the theme of the song; that's what his guitar is a metaphor for.
"The guitar I'm working on, I've beaten it some. I started off with a nice finish on the back of it in a dark ebony that goes into a red oak along the sides, into the face of the guitar. The bottom end of the guitar is gonna be a very clean slate to say to the married couple that starts out happy and everything's just perfect, and then as you work your way up towards the neck of the guitar, you're gonna start seeing some damage here, some damage there, some repairs where things have been tried to be fixed in the past. Then as you get closer to the top of the guitar, there's some big holes and a lot of damage, and there's gonna be a gentleman hanging on," explains Crow.
He continues, "I'm making an Earth, I'm gonna have an Earth that's coming apart in several pieces to match part of the lyrics in the song about his world coming apart or that person's world coming apart. I stained the neck almost all the way to the top of the head, and then the last several frets are raw naked wood, and they're gonna stay that way. I cut the head of the guitar off. I am going to have a leaf to represent new growth, and that raw wood on the neck of the guitar is sort of like where that new growth starts. There's a lot of emotions wrapped up in this project, too."
He finishes by saying, "You know, when I was asked to do this, I was honored, just like I won the freaking lottery — it's George Strait."
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