"There’s an ease to Janco’s style that radiates a mellow California glow, an ease you might expect from someone more mature in years..." - GetIntoThis.co.uk The idea for this album started when I was traveling through Europe with a good friend. On that trip I wrote 20 songs, each named after the city or town I was writing it in. Out of those 20 only "I Could Change" made it on the album. It was originally called "Paris". All the other songs on the album were written in Santa Cruz, California. I initially wished this to be a travel album, to have the feeling and sound of traveling through Europe with all you own on your back. But, inevitably, it became something quite different: STRONGHOLD. - Ian Janco