Your Great Escape [Single]

About the Album

ABOUT THE SINGLE

Following the release of 2016-17’s Magnificent Ram Aalbum, the associated touring, and the B-sides release the following year, Don embarked on a long road trip…the usual cliché musician “getting back in touch with myself” sort of journey. Of course, strapped across that journey’s rooftop, was the baggage of a broken relationship, a ditched apartment, and the empty boxes of “what’s next”. Your Great Escapewas a pre-cursor to all this, a sort of weary warning bell for the year to come. The song was crafted from an afternoon staring at his vinyl collection and wondering if that was all that was important in his space, and if in the end, all that he would be able to salvage of the relationship…the main question being, “who is escaping from whom”?

The song felt like a bookend to the last two albums of work. He envisions “Your Great Escape”as the first in a trilogy of “self-inflicted heartbreak” singles, before starting working this fall in The Joshua Tree on his next album,Important News About Horses and Bears”. Also, wedged in the interim is an interview series Don has started (he is a private pilot) from the cockpit of his tiny 1976 Cessna 150, named Willie Nelson, where he’s interviewing musicians on their upcoming releases…while they try not to freak out from the fear of a flying lawnmower.