Kelley McRae

Off the road + into our makeshift farmhouse studio! A couple finishing touches + re-recorded the song ‘Alone.’ Sending the album to the talented Zach McNees next week to start mixing!  HOORAY!

Found these and more in the house where he grew up!  And yes, that is an Eddie Van Halen biography.  To be fair, while he was listening to Van Halen, I was rocking out to my California Raisins tape.

We ended our Spring Tour this Saturday on a real high note.  We got to play with the very talented Blue Grass, IA/Nashville based songwriter David G. Smith at a South Main Events in Monticello, IA.  Thanks to Dave and Pam for having us and to all the lovely people that came out to the show.

We’ve been on a real roll of playing beautiful barns as of late.  Friday night found us in another great barn in Des Moines, IA for a surprise 10 year anniversary/vow renewal.  The bride’s face when she walked in and saw 100 of her closest friends and family in this barn was amazing.

We got to play two nights in a row (including this crazy barn) with our good friend Andy Zipf!  If you don’t know Andy’s songs go HERE now, launch the music player + listen to ‘Reach is Wide.’

That’s Matt sitting on a picnic table playing guitar on a driving break in Minnesota.

We played a house show with our friend Paul in Owatonna, MN.  Paul’s a teacher at the local highschool there and had us come in earlier that day to play a few songs for the kids and give them ‘advice.’  I’m seriously not sure that the people living in a van and playing music full time should be handing out advice to highschoolers, but we tried our best!

Late Saturday night after the show found us driving through farmland in Iowa, which was a perfect way to experience the super moon.

THANK YOU to everyone who came out to our shows this spring!!  We have done 40 shows in 18 states over the past two months and it has been a blast.  Thanks also to all the venues and promoters and house show hosts who set up shows for us along the way – So many people worked really hard to help us make this a successful tour and we are super grateful! 

We have a few summer shows in the works, but we’re taking a bit of a break from the road now to finish up the new album and to book a big tour this fall to promote that album!  Let us know if you’d like us to come through your town!!