Domino, out now!

Here it is...I’m so grateful to release my debut album 𝘿𝙊𝙈𝙄𝙉𝙊 into the world! LISTEN HERE

I hope that these songs can mean something to you, as they truly represent so much of me. These past years of deconstruction and rebuilding have been painful, beautiful, and filled with so much promise, and I’m grateful for my family of friends who have stood with and believed in me.

A big THANK YOU to everyone who took part in this record. Most importantly, to my American Paradox Records family and Scott Lane for believing in my voice and my story. Big love to you, brother.

𝘿𝙊𝙈𝙄𝙉𝙊 is OUT y’all!!! Give it a spin and celebrate with me!

By Now

I wrote ‘By Now’ sitting on my front porch. I was stuck in a soul-sucking job where I was underpaid, under appreciated, and was generally unsatisfied with what my life had become. I began to compare my life to the ivy weeds, under my unkempt hedge bush in my front yard…undesirable, unremarkable.

When you’re a kid you have these lofty dreams of “one day I’ll be an astronaut or a Nobel Peace Prize winner or the best athlete to have ever played their sport” and everyone tells you that you’re destined for it! What’s not told is that most of us will just be…average. That’s not meant as degradation, it’s just the truth. Most of us will live a rather average and plain existence…but what’s so wrong with that? What’s so wrong with just ‘being’? I don’t mean this to say that we don’t have dreams and aspirations, but what’s so bad about being present in your current reality and making the world better right where you’re at?

This song is my reckoning with my normality. “This isn’t where I thought I’d be by now” is a revelation that though the way I imagined my life, marriage, work, friendships, money, faith, etc. didn’t look at all like the grandeur I was promised I’d obtain…where I was/am is exactly where I was/am supposed to be. I hope listeners find some solace and contentment in the value of their life right where they are at.

Hometown Hero

Fate sometimes put you across the table from people you aren’t expecting. One evening at a Richmond dive bar’s open mic, this happened — and the interaction taught me something invaluable — we are all human.

Whether someone is famed under spotlit neons or stooped in the salt of the earth, just getting by, every human has something in common. We all have experienced the blissful highs of life, and conversely, its gut wrenching lows. Everyone has experienced this ebb and flow, and it’s a common ground for deep connection.

At that dive bar, and in that moment, I didn’t have the words — but I felt compelled to listen well. I wanted this person to know that I was present there with them, and that they were not alone. This song is a response to that encounter, and it’s a call for all of us to listen a little more and speak a lot less.

Waiting

Loneliness humbles the strongest. That feeling of isolation is even more palpable in the moments when we’re not actually alone...in those times where we are surrounded by people, but are invisible to the room. It feels like an eternity to be in those spaces...hoping someone validates our presence; that someone wants us there. It’s in our DNA. We’re wired for connection, and It’s a unnerving when it’s denied.