On this day five years ago we were wrapping the last of the Nashville overdubs for what would become my self-titled record and readying a short set for a little live debut of some of the new songs at Middletree. I think Perkins filmed it and i know Joe tracked it but lord knows what we’ve done with the footage beyond the shreds that landed in the Love You Later video, and these scattered stills from the sessions. I’d just driven my briefly California-plated Sprinter on its maiden voyage, an escape from LA that included a life-changing visit to the travelling Kusama exhibit and a rather exhilarating full search of the van somewhere outside Minneapolis by several eager Minnesota state troopers. I found home so unexpectedly at the tail end of that journey that I believe it took leaving it to realize what I’d had in the first place. That fall’s feeling of rebirth rhymes with this moment, spaced out by the lifetimes within the ensuing five-year increment. Everything, then and now, laced with vetiver and frankincense. A heart open, childlike, ready to burst or break or both at once at the wonder of it all, with the whim of the whole. Crank up that little blue & yellow denim record today if you’re in need of something to soundtrack your early September afternoon. To me it somehow still feels brand new- and I’ve got so many of you to thank for singin along in the half-decade that’s ensued. xo // zc