further down the road

Hello from sunny Minneapolis! What struck me the most when we rose over the edge of earth that gave us our first view of downtown is that it was a city with many trees.. with the spires of skyscrapers rising from its center. We're here with Christian Groves and his family; Nate pulled all the music gear out from the bowels of the truck for the second time this week and is tracking a bass line this morning on a demo track he started with Ben Metz on Wednesday in Waterloo, IA before Ben headed out to GDI's Fusion weekend (hello to all there in Warm Springs, VA, we'd love to be there with you!).

Earlier this week we were in Washington County, IA, staying on my grandparents farm, the place of \many sunsoaked hours of freedom in my childhood. It was gorgeous as ever.. perhaps more so.

I'm enjoying documenting the details of what we encounter along the way, they're all adding up to some kind of patchwork Americana... the hard brick corners and turns of the urban streetscape co-inside as a contour line against the curve of horizon reaching out from both sides of a rural highway.

I always start at the beginning

From a second floor brown bedroom on south Sixth Street in Goshen, IN: We arrived Tuesday evening after a late night escape from Charlottesville through the wind-roaring rain all the way into Cleveland. Spent several hours in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, an ironic record of both raging passions and packaged soul. The last few days have been a slow unwinding; visiting old-time friends and sticking up a finger to test the wind. We'll be rolling out the door come Monday morning, spending time in Chicago, Iowa and Minneapolis this coming week. Join us as you like, we'll be leaving notes along the way.