As some of you know, in December I spent four days at Hipposonic Studios in Vancouver recording my first full-length album with producer Leeroy Stagger. We met at a festival in the summer of 2024 and quickly connected over a shared love of raw songwriting and a mutual path through recovery. With some incredibly talented session players — including musicians who’ve played with City and Colour, Frazey Ford, and John Prine — we set out to capture something organic and real. We shared a vision rooted in the organic, loose and gritty feel of live albums like Kathleen Edwards’ Failer, Ryan Adams’ Heartbreaker, and Lucinda Williams’ Car Wheels on a Gravel Road and agreed early on that my songs needed the same treatment and room to breathe.