2020 Epilogue: Finding the Sound

Friday, March 13, 2020 was a hell of a day. 

First, it was Friday the Thirteenth, objectively.  

Second, Owen and I spent the afternoon in my basement recording our first tracks as Tree Streets.  

Third, while we were recording, the…

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Some Come Easy, Some Come Hard (6.22.2020)

In October 2016, Owen, Owen's sister (now my wife), and I crowded into the front row at 1 Longfellow Square in Portland, Maine to hear Langhorne Slim and the Law. Langhorne is one of our favorite musicians and a significant…

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Our Producer (6.15.2020)

This week the band got a producer. 

For as long as I can remember, my dad and I have always shared the bond of music.  Some of my earliest memories are of him playing vinyl on the turntable.  As I…

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A Lifelong Dream (6.9.2020)

When I was three or four years old, I stood in front of my parents’ TV and watched with awe as colors bounced around the screen to orchestral music in Disney’s Fantasia.  I moved my fingers in the air —…

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