Ferron Letter about Driver

Dear Supporter:
The road may go on forever but it is made easier if we remember that the vehicle may change. And with that in mind I embarked on the making of Driver, my sixth recording.

From the opening song called Breakpoint, the invocation to "perfect" love, to the last song Maya, the dedication to "actual" love, this album of 10 songs is an exploration of how change and commitment interact with each other and with supposed meaning in our lives.

Knowing that "we can do anything" ultimately means that we do what we can do, helps to understand how these songs can be sparse and utilitarian in poetic structure, and still have that sense of the tiny-human-spirit-thing gripping on to anything that seems stable, as the earth spins us dizzy.

The feelings and events that knock us down don't make sense most of the time. It seems as though the poetry of life that gives us the courage to reach for the beautiful, the magical, the honorable, and all the other "ables" that we might dream up hardly ever explain themselves or stay round long unless they are grounded by the natural and daily useful, and so, while I am often asked: "How do you write a song?", this time, with this recording, which was primarily made at home and mixed in a studio, I tried to make a place where songs are...and then practice going to them.

I asked myself, and the other 12 musicians, to play as though we had already got to where we were going and craved nothing more than to stretch out and hold sacred the "now" of the song. There is a place in each of the songs where I forget where I am, very much like what sometimes happens when we drive and think. If that happens for you too, I hope that the time spent out of time is like "fishing time" in that it's not time taken off of your life.

All of this is probably very familiar to you, so I'll end now by saying that Driver is simply a love album..love of life, and love from me to you.

Ferron