This record has been a long time coming, but I’m finally ready, or at least restless enough, to put out this collection of tunes that I’ve been carrying around for a while. These songs were all written while I was in the midst of radically reshaping my life. While shedding a job, home, band, and relationship for a new life in Western Massachusetts I started writing songs that I could play by myself with just an acoustic guitar, and maybe a harmonica if one was lying around and happened to be in the right key. Songs that didn’t need long solos or extra textures to tell you all they had to offer.

Over the last few years, I’ve played these songs at restaurants, cafes, house concerts, open mics, coffee houses, and concert venues; alone and with lots of different configurations of amazing friends. In fact, playing these songs has led to me making some of my most meaningful friendships and meeting the love of my life, and now wife. Arrangements for these eight songs have been created, transformed, adapted, and reshaped by the many sensitive and big-eared musicians that made them their own. It's my hope that, by presenting them this way, I get to continue that into the future.

Though very few of the lyrics contain direct autobiography, this is by far the most personal set of songs I’ve ever written. I think you’ll maybe learn a little about me when you hear this record in full, and I hope you do.