"It's a journey I think every artist has to make, every patriot has to relish, every man has to sustain."

9 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Americana, COUNTRY: Alt-Country



Details:
It felt like this.

You're twenty-something, you're feeling too big for the small home-town you're still in; your job is backbreaking; happy hour at the corner bar is miserable and slow; your "peers" are literally one Jäger shot away from a mini-van.

And one day... you just crack.

So I cracked, and I recorded this album in the weeks leading up to my self-imposed exile from my home state. I needed to get out of Pennsylvania for a number of reasons... and it was decision time. I mean, Dylan went to New York City; Neil Young went to Los Angeles.

In the end I chose L.A. because I knew less people there. And I'm still there; writing, recording, performing; because it still feels right.

"Make Your Getaway" is an honest album from an honest viewpoint; because the lyrics demanded it. I'm really just preaching what I practice. Simply, with the exception of two piano-based tracks, the focus is on acoustic guitar backed by rolling drum beats, melodic bass lines, and a refusal to let studio trickery distract from the story.

This record is MY odyssey, not from one coast to another, but from one life to another. One foot in front of the other. It's like... deciding who I am and what I'm worth. And then that's it. Everything has to measure up or it's history. It's a journey I think every artist has to make, every patriot has to relish, every man has to sustain.


-Chris Kayes