Really excited to announce a new project that my friend Jack and I are working on, and this one, friends, is really special. It's personal. It begins with a story...
It all started several decades ago at a little bar in a remote area of northern Idaho near Priest Lake, where on a few warm summer nights, in air perfumed by pine trees, lake breezes and huckleberries, a little boy about seven years old or so would sit outside a window by the stage, looking in, mesmerized by an incredible band. He'd tap his feet to their rhythm, fist pump when they played his favorite songs (their originals), learn the words, study the dancers moving to their beat and bask in moment after moment of what seemed like a perfect harmony of music, humanity and nature.
These special moments and especially those beautiful songs would grow to become part of the soulful foundation of not just that boy's musical life, but a big influence on one of his best friends' as well. That boy, of course, was me. Jack Parker is the friend. And the band...
They were called Trapper Creek.
And they had absolutely no idea how much we cared. Time to change that.
Over the next few months, we're going to slowly introduce you and pay tribute to the music of this band--and especially songwriter and singer Mike Wagoner--that made music worthy of a much larger audience. We're also going to release a handful of original Trapper Creek covers over the course of the year that we've been recording with a few friends. While these won't be commercial releases, they will have just as much care and love as our own original albums. It's the least we can do... This is our chance to say thanks to one of our inspirations.
This story is going to connect a lot of people! Please stay tuned, and I hope you enjoy.