Greetings, my friends! I hope everyone has had a positive start to 2021. This past year was simply crazy, am I right? I want to begin my apologizing for my lack of communication these past months. To be completely blunt, I spent much of the past year unsure of the direction that I wanted to take as both an artist and a person. Suffice to say that where I ended up was less so by design and more so by circumstance. I will be the first to admit that I felt myself regressing as an artist in more ways than one: I was no longer able to get my creative juices flowing enough to pen anything of substance to paper, so songwriting of any kind was a no-go. I had also lost the motivation that I once had to improve myself in more technical ways (my guitar chops, my vocal ability, things of that nature). It was essentially the musical equivalent of depression...or maybe it was just depression. Knowing full well what I was going through but not how to plough through it, I decided to re-examine my goals and my opportunities as a musician. As someone with close to 100 songs in his catalog, that meant taking these old tracks out of the cupboard and dusting a few of them for future use. I suppose this is as good of a time as any to transition into the announcement portion of this message: This past August, I realized my first new piece of work in four years. A four-track EP, The Things We Dream Of takes songs that were written fourteen years ago and essentially puts a modern, more professional spin on them. In other words, they are what i wished they would have sounded like when I originally recorded them. The overall style of music is also quite different from my past output in that it forgoes the folk genre entirely and emphasizes a more pop rock sound. It is my first electric-based EP to be produced by the great Brad Feeney whom I have worked with for six years at this point. You can find a few of the tracks from the new EP on my N1M music page. I also have another announcement that I am immensely excited to share regarding a certain band and my recent involvement in it. However, that will have to wait until an official announcement on behalf of the band is made. That is all for now, folks. Thank you so much for continuing to support me after all of these years. I know it has not always been easy, but it has always meant a great deal to me. Until next time, Tyler