How was Asheville?
I liked it a lot. I migrated there for the same reason I was drawn to Colorado the music and the mountains. I wasn t really catching my stride there, though, so I wound up jumping in my van with a buddy and heading this way. Did you attend college?
I did. I went to UMass Amherst. It s sort of like the CU Boulder of Massachusetts, I guess. I majored in English and journalism there. Can you tell me a bit about your new release, Portraits of the New/Old West (Vol. 1)
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I ve been writing songs on acoustic guitar, and a lot them are inspired by some of my personal journeys. I m big into history, and I wrote the songs through the eyes of people in the Western frontier. The idea for me was to bridge the past and the present and tap into the idea of manifest destiny and westward expansion; and how there is still this American dream, or allure, of the great Western frontier. It s been idealized and captured in movies and literature and in various landscapes. Wh