The first song I ever wrote for my wife, “Way Beyond” looks back across half a lifetime and realizes that every road, every lonely year, and every moment before we met somehow feels as though it had been leading me to her all along.

orn from the thought of drifting off to sleep, “Drift Away” becomes a dreamlike nighttime voyage beneath jeweled stars, carried by a gently rocking sea, a siren’s song, and a musical ending that slowly disappears like an echo of an echo.

Inspired by childhood memories of Michigan’s Tahquamenon Falls, this fictional love story imagines a man looking back on the magical night he first saw the woman who would change his life through the mist beneath the falls.

Inspired by the laid-back island spirit I’ve always loved in Jimmy Buffett’s music, “The Slow Song” is about taking life slowly enough to enjoy the sand, the music, the company—and a sunset too beautiful and ever-changing to capture in a song.