Bay State Lullaby

Description

This album documents my attempt to make sense of the major upheavals in my life: the end of an era (the breakup of Say ZuZu in 2003) and the beginning of another (my marriage, my move from a small town to the city, the birth of two children, and the launch of a new career as an ethnomusicologist, all while creating this album). It also reflects my search for a personal musical voice, outside of Say ZuZu. I wanted a sound built around the acoustic guitar, somewhere between Neil Young's "Out On The Weekend" and Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried." It was a time when my life was veering away from the script I thought was written for me. I was, as the song says, happy and lost. This album helped me see things more clearly.