Inside Released: January 2004

While I have done some recording projects off and on, "Inside" was my first real album that I created.

I decided that before I started recording it, I wanted to write all of the material up front. I felt that by doing it this way, I would really get the chance to make the songs my own before recording them. So, from 1999 until 2003, I wrote about 15 songs, ten of which ended up making the final cut.

In June of 2003, I finally had reached the point where I was ready to record. I set up a studio (dubbed Dark Mountain Studios, after the street I grew up on in Maine) in our spare bedroom. Over the next several months I began recording in whatever spare time I had. By December I had recorded all 15 songs, some of which I liked more than others. Since the original version of the album clocked in at almost 70 minutes, I decided to pare the track list down by removing some of the songs I wasn't sure about (such as "First Light" and "Fear of Flying"). I spent the rest of the year mixing down and cleaning up bits and pieces and the final product was ready for release on New Years day 2004.

Track Listing

01	Anchorhead	7:40
02	Santa Cruz	6:19
03	The Boy Who Would be King	5:42
04	Monday Evening	2:08
05	Second Light	4:43
06	Roller-Skating to Antarctica	3:20
07	The Other Side of Sunday	3:50
08	Oh Well...	0:58
09	Inside	7:38
10	Final Light	5:03