THE WILDERNESS SESSIONS
During the pandemic, when all the places to perform became empty spaces, I decided to accept that reality and take it further. If we couldn’t gather together for music, I wanted to go really far out there away from everyone and play in a giant canyon or on a mountaintop in the middle of nowhere. It’s one of those things that would never have worked in normal times. But I realized there were two ways to look at the strange situation we all found ourselves in for a while: I could look at all of the things I couldn’t do, everything I was missing out on, everything we’d lost… or I could find the things that were only possible under the present circumstances, the things I wouldn’t be able to do otherwise, and seek those things out and make them happen.
The Wilderness Sessions were only possible because these places were empty and even more remote than usual, and because we all had time. It was completely irrational and inefficient from a logistical and financial perspective but when everyone was just stuck waiting in a holding pattern, there was a chance to do something different. And I desperately wanted to get out. So we drove across the country while living out of a camper van and set my gear up for a series of remote performances in wild places where I never in a million years thought I’d get to play music.