An epic song cycle rooted in the plaintive, earthy range of vernacular musical styles known as Americana. This EP is a selection from the full album to be released in July 2023.
CHAPTER ONE - LEARNING HOW TO BREATHE AGAIN
A heady steel guitar swell leads into a lively pop rock groove. The mood is autumnal. But the chill in the breeze carries the hopeful promise of glorious summer. The song’s picture-perfect choral refrains crackle with a life-affirming melodicism that lingers long in the memory.
A sunrise, seaside meditation on time, memories, and mortality carried on a gentle tide of beguiling piano arpeggios and the lilting, lyrical lead guitar of devotional music icon GuruGanesha.
A seduction in the form of a tongue-in-cheek, tongue-twisting science lecture. An urgently playful, retro-rock beat buoys this invitation to partake in the most primordial chemical reaction there is—the Big Bang, as it were, that got us all here in the first place.
CHAPTER TWO - TEXAS GIRL (A FANTASY IN SIX SONGS)
A soft-hued tale of a small-town girl who lingers on the narrator’s mind. Who is she? Like so many heroines of story and song, she retains an air of mystery. You’ll catch glimpses of her in several of the songs that follow, along with this other guy.... Kenny Skaggs brings Glen's spirit back to life in this song.
The truck driver is one of the archetypal figures in country music—a freewheeling, fast-living hero who flirts with death on the lonesome highway. Asher’s reflective take on this venerable tradition is counterposed by Garrison Jones’ bumptious barroom piano and Kenny Skaggs’ ominous pedal steel guitar.
A moody, mid-tempo rumination on renewal. Holly Pyle’s eerily ethereal vocal embellishments curl around Asher’s lead voice like wisps of smoke from the still-warm embers of the singer’s bygone days.
