Why I write
Songs don't start
with a melody
"They start with something you overheard, or said wrong, or meant differently than it came out."
Country music gave me a language for things that don't have clean names — the weird dignity of a hard day's work, the specific sadness of a dinner table with too many empty chairs, the way two people who still love each other can be completely wrong for each other.
I write because the characters deserve better than a vague verse. I write because specificity is kindness — calling the diner by its real name, saying the exit number instead of "somewhere down the highway."
Every song I release is a conversation I wanted to have but couldn't find the right moment for. This is the right moment.