The new album, Transparent Towns, is out everywhere now!

I give to you today my new album, Transparent Towns.

In a hallowed hall on the prairie, with an inspiring cadre of musicians, and against the incandescent Oklahoma summer, we cut an album of songs that held weight while maintaining weightlessness. I slept on the floor of the live room, wedged between the piano and the guitars every night after the sessions and spent off moments listening to the nascent tracks being blasted into an underground storm shelter converted into an echo chamber, capturing the rare rain splashing on the red dirt above me. This work was a lightning rod that grounded me, a capsule that brought me back from orbit. May you find something within it for yourself.

Thank you for listening, always.

John

Under the Radar premieres "Prayers and Pollen"!

I am honored to have Under the Radar premier an early view into “Prayers and Pollen”, another track from the album, along with the song’s visual companion. These are a thorough and thoughtful collection of words to read before I hit the road to start tour today. You can also listen to the audio on Bandcamp as we speak.

“'Prayers and Pollen' most directly recalls the softer side of singer/songwriters like Elliott Smith or Jason Molina, wordsmiths who were able to transmute interior storms into moments of universal poeticism."

Thank you, Under The Radar. Transparent Towns is out this Friday, September 19th at your local record stores and digital realms.

Thank you for listening,

John

"Transparent Towns" Single OUT NOW, Album Coming September 19th!

The title track of Transparent Towns reveals itself in its gentle grit today via Magnet Magazine. Influenced by the book “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino, I wrote on how our memories are altered by subsequent tales and encounters. We arrive at a town worn or leave a city with a faint destination in mind, all of our days. The venues and houses you stayed up late in are now paid parking lots and derelict shells, filled with the rust of a former era. These histories don’t disappear, they remain somewhere within our hardware and our recitations to friends and strangers, but even then, the memories change with every utterance. Memory is a forest, an ocean floor, a factory warehouse, and a general store, with items shifting on shelves. "Transparent Towns" stands to tell how I reconcile with those memories, even if it’s a fool’s errand.

Transparent Towns, the album, comes to you 9/19 via Tin Canyon Records and Well Kept Secret/Secretly Distribution.

Come see me this fall opening for SG Goodman:

Sept 18 - Dallas, TX @ Kessler Theater

Sept 19 - Houston, TX @ Heights Theater

Sept 20 - Austin, TX @ Antone's

Sept 23 - Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress

Sept 27 - San Francisco, CA @ Chapel

Sept 30 - Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater

Oct 1 - Seattle, WA @ Crocodile

Oct 3 - Salt Lake City, UT @ State Room

Oct 4 - Denver, CO @ Bluebird

Thank you for listening, always.

John