As with any music I have put out into the world, this EP came about intentionally and surreptitiously. I have quite a bit of unreleased material these days and I'm working on slowly recording it and releasing it over time.

The songs were written during a period of my life filled both with great loss and growth. They also speak to the feelings of excitement and anxiety about coming out of the darkest periods of Covid lockdown, but also the nostalgia for how things 'used to be' before the pandemic began.

I began recording the vocal and guitar parts for 'Headlights' and 'Sure Footed, Cold Hearted' with the kind and keen engineer Luke Dumke at his amazing little studio in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. I enlisted Seattle's finest drummer, William Mapp, to record drums parts for these songs which he executed at his home studio.

For the next portion of this EP project I had booked some time at my favorite magical studio, The Unknown, in Anacortes, WA. I brought together a 5-piece band of my friends and Seattle's great session players to live-track a couple songs there. However, before the date we had booked there the engineer, Nich, got sick and we were forced to reschedule. It was a challenge to get all these musicians together on a date the studio was open.

William offered up his garage studio to do some tracking in place of the full band live setup we had rehearsed. He had mostly used this space for recording drum overdubs on his own, but was interested in using his skills and space to do some more full scale recording. It ended up being a great low-pressure situation that allowed me to feel free and creative while working on recording 'I Don't See Lovin,'' which is a song that is close to my heart. We did another session to finalize odds and ends, and William offered to mix the track himself.

In the space since these recordings happened I made the decision to leave Seattle, WA where I had lived for close to a decade and move to Nashville, TN to continue to pursue music opportunities. I was distracted from finishing these three songs, but eventually found the mixes that I had begun working on and recorded some guitar and vocal parts on my own to fill out the recordings. I begun mixing it on my own, but my skills are limited in this realm so I ended up being frustrated with what I came up with. William was interested in working on his mixing skills, which he had been honing as a remote recording session drummer, and he came up with a second draft that supported these songs in the best possible way.

I enlisted Nicholas Wilbur to do the mastering for the EP, which made these dated-to-me recordings sparkle.

It's amazing that these songs are here, and I'm curious to hear how you relate to them based on your life experiences.