Jay Stott

Episode Seven of Story Behind The Song

In the winter of 2021, we were all mid-pandemic. I was working from home at my then day-job, my kid was going to school from home, we were all hanging around an awful…

Episode Six of The Story Behind The Song

Have you ever had it with all the advetising? The constant vomit stream of bullshit? Yeah, me too. In the fall of 2020 (incedentally in the middle of an election cycle when…

Welcome to Episode 5 of the story behind the song!

This week I'm looking at 'Mostly What We Ain't' which was released as a single about a year and a half ago. I wrote this song as a…

Story Behind the Song: Ep 4

Ah, trains, and blues, And trains. What a great combo. 

Sometimes you just get messing around with a riff on the guitar and come up with a song to go with it. That's pretty…

Story Behind The Song: Episode 3

Sometimes you start at the end and work to the beginning. There was this phrase rolling around in my head about leaving too soon or too late. And I got to wondering who would…

Well here's episode 2 of the story behind the song. 

This song isn't released- you can only hear the studio version when the record comes out, so pre-order now and you'll get it first! 

I wrote last episode about…

I though I'd do a little writing about the songs on the upcoming album, so here's episode 1! This isn't the first song on the record, but it's the title song, so that's what I'm starting with. 

I'm a member…

Finally, something is happening. 

Yup, a new record is finally coming- July 18 One Angel Wing will be out in the world! It will include the singles released over the past few years as well as new songs.

When you're…

This is the Seinfeld of blog posts. Its about nothing.

I mean, not nothing. But I hate trying to come up with some sort of ‘headline’ that makes it sound more exciting than it is. You know all those bands…

On March 12 it will be the 10 year anniversary of releasing my first solo record. 

I have no idea how time went by so quick. Making that record was a huge learning experience for me- Brian Schey and Brian…