For Shannon

A poorly done cover of a Coalese song done for an old friend as a bit of a joke.

Volume 1 - Baptist Church

I wrestle with words a lot. How long have we been saying "kill two birds with one stone" since we haven't hunted with stones for a long, long time. What does it mean to "love" someone and how has that single word taken on so many meanings. Do "small" and "insignificant" always have to be synonyms?

One day, while I was counting my words I started thinking about the word "record." What does it mean to leave a record? Is it writing numbers down? Does it mean that I am saving something for posterity? Am I charting things?

The other idea of "record" is leaving musical tracks. Each song becomes a history. Little by little, the idea of melding the two together became clear and I started to think about a little project that I could do to make record records.

I move around a lot. I drive through endless plaines from one city to another. I am in and out of buildings. I love the mountains. Most of all I love the sun bleached fields and crumbling farms that sit under the blue skies here in Colorado. How could I use recording as a medium to make and keep records of all these places?

This project is a learning curve. I'm navigating uncertain electrical currents, micing new spaces every session, learning how to play with other people, learning what my own capacity is as a musician and as a field recordist. Right now it takes me a long time to do each session and they are very rough but they are exactly what I want - records of the spaces I have been welcomed into to play.

Volume 1 was recorded on a cold Monday in Central Baptist Church, here in Denver.

Guitar was played by Katelin Champion

Mandoline was played by Elizabeth Royal