Having given up his rock star dreams as a teenager in Cincinnati, Ohio in the mid-90s,
Andy McFarlane spent much of his adult life as an educator, a profession he was drawn to after spending time in Mexico in his early 20s. It was a serendipitous reunion with an old high school musician friend,
Matt Drenik (
Lions,
Battleme) in Portland a few years ago that inspired McFarlane to start sharing poems, lyrics and music he had been writing over the last couple of decades. Under the name
Far Lands, McFarlane quietly released
Oh What An Honor, Oh What A Drag in 2017 on a label he runs with Drenik called Get Loud. For his sophomore release,