Mats for New Album

My solo project, Still Lost Bird Music, has a new album coming out, so I'm putting together some promo stuff. Becky did an amazing job designing the website, and it just went up today: www.stilllostbirdmusic.com. (She also designed the above sweet-looking card. It shows the album cover on it, also her design. The photo on the cover, and several other photos on the website, were taken with a special kind of Polaroid film called Chocolate.)

I'm SOOOO excited about the album. (There's a bit of a concept to it that you can read about on the website.) I recorded it almost all myself in my studio—had to learn how to play the banjo first—and my friend Jeff mixed and mastered it and added some very tasty arrangement/production touches too.

The title of the album comes from the first song, "August", about youth, lust, ill-fated love, confusion, clarity, and nostalgia in the late summer. There's a seasonal theme running through much of the rest of the album as well, and a lot of the music has the bittersweet feeling of the late-summer/early-fall too I think. Here's the title track: