About Me

​​I made music under the name "Lazy Blazers" for ten years, but it never really sat right with me. It has a certain ring to it, for sure, but it sounds like the name of a band, or, alternatively, a marijuana dispensary. So before I finally released the pile of recordings I've made since 2016's Asphalt Ghosts, I wanted something new to call myself. I tried "Wolf Music" for awhile, but it never really felt right.

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As I was finishing up the Fire and Rain sessions, it occurred to me how often ghost- and haunting-related imagery show up in my songs. This isn't on purpose in any grand sense: I tend to write songs in isolation from each other, with no overarching theme in mind. Even the album title Asphalt Ghosts came from a random line in the song "California" that I liked a lot but didn't think much about at first beyond that immediate reaction.

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Upon further reflection, though, I admit that I often feel like a ghost: haunting scenes rather than being a part of them, fading into the background in situations where everyone else seems to understand implicitly how to be in the foreground. And I feel like when I do come forward, it tends to be scary for everyone involved.

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Enter pinus sabiniana. Known colloquially as the gray pine, the foothill pine, the nut pine, or, if you live in southern Oregon or northern California, the ghost pine. In a landscape carpeted by beautiful, verdant pine forests, the ghost pine...fades into the background. It's scraggly and weird-looking, and it's endemic to this strange, high-altitude desert I've called home for almost a decade now. Dare I say that every time I see one I sense a kindred...spirit?

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So, I'll be releasing all of my new music this year as The Ghost Pines. I think it'll be the last name change for awhile because, for better and for worse, it feels like me. A ghost in the forest, a wilderness amen.

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Thanks for reading.