Dispatch
Folios
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Dispatch started as demos from a rough patch in the fall of 2020, in which I checked off a lot of cliched rock guy boxes. Following a bit of a health scare, I quit drinking, bought a guitar for the first time in fifteen years, started writing again with a fervor I hadn't had in almost as long, and made a super personal record about love,
Dispatch started as demos from a rough patch in the fall of 2020, in which I checked off a lot of cliched rock guy boxes. Following a bit of a health scare, I quit drinking, bought a guitar for the first time in fifteen years, started writing again with a fervor I hadn't had in almost as long, and made a super personal record about love, depression, family, friends, bars, jail, music scenes, and something resembling redemption. I started playing the tunes for a few friends, whom I trust and love, and was encouraged to put something out from these dozens of tunes.
I kept adding to the demos, playing all the instruments I had around the basement-some I know how to play well, and others...not so much-and singing harmonies where I could find them. Usually with my dog Cooley sitting across from me, non-plussed. I took the tracks to my old friend Tom Herbers who mixed and mastered the album. I was actually going to release this?
After twenty years of releasing music under my own name, knowing I wasn't going back into a studio with anyone any time soon (damn global pandemic), it felt like this was a fresh start. I was breaking up with myself. Band names aren't getting any easier to find, but being a...book guy, and the fact that it somehow wasn't taken, I found Folios. I'm proud of Dispatch as a whole, snapshot piece of work from a time of strange isolation and excited to bring the songs to an occasional live setting. It's hopefully all summed up in the last line on the record...
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Count the Sunrise 4:160:00/4:16
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Little White Lies 2:490:00/2:49
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Landlocked 2:350:00/2:35
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Bad Penny 3:060:00/3:06
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Better Off Ashes 3:220:00/3:22
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No Line in the Sand 2:130:00/2:13
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Weekend Holiday 2:510:00/2:51
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Porch Song 3:050:00/3:05
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4508 4:440:00/4:44
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Year of Palindromes 3:340:00/3:34
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Moving Shadow 2:440:00/2:44