It was a long time coming, but the songs got recorded in two sessions at the library here in Richmond, Vermont. I'd been playing with some open-tunings and trying to use a thumbpick some, and a lot of these songs were written while I was playing with these ideas.

I also felt like I wanted to make some connection to the traditional musics that have inspired me, like some of the folk blues and early country and Irish and Scottish ballads. Doesn't always come through like I want it to, so with this set of tunes I included a couple covers to help make that connnection. "Man of Constant Sorrow" is certainly most well-known thanks to Dan Tyminski's rendition, based on the Stanley Brothers, but I have always been most affected by Bob Dylan's version from his eponymous debut. So I included a performance of that tune. I also included "The Wild Rover," a tune I've been hearing most of my life, having grown up in Albany NY around a lot of Irish Americans. My version here doesn't stick to some of the customary parts, b