Dustin Darnold

Having moved from the windswept plains of the Midwest to Seattle in the summer of 2007, I went out in search of a change in scenery and a little adventure. The world was at my finger tips and I was going to write songs about truck stops, mountains, cigarettes and booze. It wasn’t long however, before I became homesick and sought out a way to channel my yearning -- the snow, the northwoods, friends, the endless fields of corn and soybeans. As a result, I dusted off the old recording unit during the fall of 2008 and wound up with Silos & The Long Pause...an LP to comfort my vanishing prairie.

Shortly thereafter, it was a chance encounter with a documentary that provided much of the inspiration for writing my next album "Condolences To Dewey." It's an album about a man whose stories are as beautiful as they are desperate. He is living with alzheimers and the album documents both the fading light and growing uncertainty he faces.

I enjoy taking walks with music... whether its down memory lane or on the road less traveled. As a child, I used to wake up on the weekends listening to my Dad play songs by Neil Young, John Prine, and Greg Brown. So it only makes sense that as a young man... now I play songs that draw on similar influences.