Hey everybody, today I have for you one new album and two announcements.

So first it's with great excitement that I present to you, sketch of a promised departure.

This is my first full-length album since 2019's The Flood in Color.

It's ten brand new songs featuring performances from world-class musicians such as my friend Robert Ellis,

J.T. Bates of Big Red Machine and Taylor Swift, Andrew Marlin of Watch House,

Zach Hickman of Josh Witters Band and Ray LaMontaine's Band and many others.

Second, the second announcement here is that I present to you the Nation of Heat Vault.

This is an online repository of my entire creative output, My Life's Work.

This includes a full album catalog.

You can't get all the albums on Spotify any longer.

All of them are going to be here, a complete podcast library.

So every episode of the Working Songwriter podcast for streaming and download will be here.

As it stands now, you can only get the latest 100 in the iTunes store.

So if you want to hear Ian Makai of Fugazi, if you want to hear Steve Earl,

if you want to hear it loose into Williams, this is where to get it.

And finally, the Nation of Heat Vault also features a complete archive of the enthusiast Digest newsletter.

So that's a good resource for you there as well.

What do these two announcements have to do with one another?

You ask?

Well, listen, subscribers to the vault can come in stream and download the new album in its entirety right now.

The album will eventually be up on Spotify first to singles and then it's the whole thing.

It'll eventually be there.

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