about send me home:

Send Me Home was recorded entirely live on a late-50s era 2-inch analog tape machine in producer Brian Beattie’s wife Valerie Fowler’s painting studio, amid a lot of wood and canvas and sunlight...

What kind of music is this?

It’s probably more indie than alternative country, it’s dark and melancholy at times but it also has a lot of niceness and hope to it, it has humor but it’s subtle, it strives to be pretty but not too pretty, and it strives to be as simple and honest as it can be.

Where is home?

I have been asked this question several times, and there have been assumptions that home is Vietnam, where I was born, or that home is some place with pine trees and cold mountain rivers, because of the frequent mention of such places in my songs. The best explanation I can find for the idea of home as it appears in the songs on Send Me Home, and in the song itself, comes from a Buddhist parable I read once about a woman, a Buddhist nun, who is traveling, and she is very tired and hungry when she comes to this town, but when she asks no one there will give her shelter for the night, as they are opposed to her religion or are afraid of being associated with her because of it. So, she finds a place to sleep out in the woods somewhere. It is cold, and she wakes in the middle of the night to see the full moon shining through the tree branches above her. She realizes that had she been given shelter for the night she would not either have received this vision of the moon, which is very lonely and beautiful. And she is grateful then at having been turned away by the people in the town.

Not that I am always gladdened by the prospect of being cast on the outside of things, just that maybe there is a sort of ‘out there’ feeling I’m more familiar with than I am with any defined concept of home.


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