Around two years ago, my youngest daughter, Fiona, informed me that the creek which runs through our property empties into the Wabash River, which empties into the Ohio River, which empties into the Mississippi River. She told me if I was ever lost, all I needed to do was find the Mississippi River and then follow the river home. For me, the process of writing music is one of following a sort of river home- starting out “lost” in unfamiliar territory and navigating through twists and changes. The music on “Follow the River Home” is a collection of songs that seem to follow a metaphorical river home- and that river passes through some new terrain (the songs “Snowfall” and “Downstream II”) as well as through a couple of long-loved places (“Gathering Stars”, which is one song made from two live recordings- one recorded at the Gathering Concert Series in Philadelphia, PA on October 11, 2014, and the other recorded at WXPN studios in Philadelphia, PA for a live-over-the-air concert for the Star's End radio program, in the early morning hours of October 12, 2014).