Though he’s still up onstage, Alex Woodard isn’t at the center. Not physically, anyhow. He stands to the side of a band he’s sourced, guitar in hands, to tell others’ stories. It’s a first for the musician, whose career took him to every corner of the nation before the Long Beach native settled in San Diego some 15 years ago. It was here that he became the nucleus of something much larger than his own story, here that he found the makings of For the Sender.

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