The “Across the Light” album release celebration took place on Sunday May 19. The next day I flew to New York for work and things got away from me a bit. But now with a little time, I wanted to share some video from the event taken by a friend.
Backing up a step, we took a different approach for launching this album. Instead of a big loud power trio album release gig at a club, we booked a stripped down seated show at a high end guitar shop with a bar attached, called Strum Guitars in Portland. It was more intimate and celebratory and we could tell stories between the songs and people could sit, enjoy, and be part of the celebration with us. It went over better than I could have imagined and I remain thankful to those that attended and paid attention to the music and back and forth. Also major props to my pal Christian Troche who joined on guitar for four songs to help round out the sound.
While I didn't get great video of any of the new songs, there were a couple of live debuts of original material on account of the more intimate setting. We'll be booking more things this year and there may be some other surprises coming, stay tuned.
What You Hold Near, from the last album of the same name:
Shouldn't It Be Different, from the debut album. We've only played this one other time live, back in 2010.
Numbers Radio, from Hearts and Reason - we had never played this live before this gig.
…and finally, Forgotten Be Found from the last album (What You Hold Near), sadly still relevant for the 2024 election cycle…