The Journey

I've played guitar a long time. Long enough to know what I wanted a song to feel like before I could ever make it feel that way. The part that always stopped me was my own voice. I'd try to sing the thing in my head and it never came out the way I heard it. So most of it stayed in there. Years of it.

The Journey is where that changed. It's the first time everything in my head found a way out in song form. A mix of all the music I love, all in one place, finally pointed the same direction. It doesn't sound like trying. It sounds like arriving somewhere after a long time of not knowing if you ever would.

The cover is a man alone in a hotel room at night, hood up, a cup of something warm, the city lit up behind the glass. That's the honest picture of it. Quiet, a little heavy, but moving. Because that's what this was. When you find a way through the pain you learn to breathe again, and you don't take the breathing for granted after that.

This is where Miles North starts. Not at the top of anything. At the beginning of finally saying it out loud.