Well, it’s been almost a year since I held a contest to win one of five limited live/acoustic versions of my new album. The whole thing delayed longer than I like for several reasons. Well, the dust has settled, and production of “Rise Anew” is in full swing. Which means the five lucky winners will be getting one of these in the mail soon! Thank you all so much for supporting me and being so patient!  Let me use this as a chance to say I am so excited to bring these songs to everyone very soon. I have some of the best musicians I have ever met working very hard to make my simple songs sound extra special for you. “Rise Anew” tells a deeply personal story, and I am hopeful it will resonate with you. It’s an honor to make music for you. Soli Deo Gloria

So…Louisville. Louisville, Louisville, Louisville. I hope you’ve been practicing your pronunciation, because I did and I didn’t embarrass myself once! This city is amazing, I’m telling you. I didn’t anticipate it, but I think I’m in love.

We got to the city at around 2pm on Saturday and checked into the Legacy Hotel. Right away the vibes were good. The guy at the desk is a Boyce student and is from Maryland! What-what! We got all checked in and he suggested a place for us to attend church the next day. Go to our room and it is awesome! I instagrammed a pic of our room. Free doesn’t always equal good things, but this was a very good thing. Because we were visiting the college for the first time, we got to stay 2 nights for free at the hotel. So generous! The building was older, but not dated. And you could see a row of cute houses from our windows.

1 track album

“I don’t want to waste your time with music you don’t need.”

I’m excited to finally be able to say, Long Road Backwards is available now! We had some technical difficulties and roadblocks trying to release this gem, including Hurricane Sandy. But alas, the music is out there and ready for your ears. 

This album is a bit scary for me. Only one of the nine songs was written recently. The rest are old forgotten demos and experiments. They never made it on to a studio album either because the emotion was still too raw at the moment, or they were just too weird. People have been asking for me to release an album like this for a while since they’ve heard some of the songs live and had no place to purchase them. I plan on releasing some of the stories behind these songs in the days ahead to give you a little more insight on why they were written and what they mean to me today. In the meantime, just listen and relate to them however you heart finds most natural. Don’t filter them through any preconceived idea of what they were for me, that doesn’t matter. These are for you.