“Country Blues #72” is a song that was really my archetype for what I wanted the feel and arrangement of the songs on this record to be. Composed in February 2020, the lyrics were derived from an established classic by a famous British classic rock band but it is musically and melodically original. In total, … Read more
This is a second of two songs on this record that were commissioned. It is based on a personal, real-life experience of someone I know. However, unlike my lyrical approach with “Sweet Emily”, I was a bit ambiguous lyrically to kind of mask the details of the actual situation this song is based off of … Read more
This is an extended, 6½ minute-long tune, which was supposed to be the title of the album (as “The Truth Is Out There Somewhere”). I wanted both the song and album to share this title, but when it came to distributing the album, the online distributors insisted that the word ‘is’ be lowercase, which I … Read more