The songwriting process for “Divided We Fall” started with the song “Campfire Song”… but really it started with the year preceding making the first note. As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve never played Country music before… or even really listened to it much on the radio. However, I’ve been working as an A1 at country music venues on a weekly basis for a little over a year leading up to this album. It is during this time that I really started to fall in love with the Country crowd, musicians, and musicianship.
This is really where the songwriting process started… mixing great Country bands, from all over America, and paying attention to how the instruments work together. There are some things that I can’t do; like play Steel Guitar or Fiddle, that I would have liked to incorporate… but overall these songs incorporate a lot of what I noticed would go over well in venues, with the bands I’ve been working with.
The album also, of course, was inspired by the current political events that have been going on. I would consider this to be part of the songwriting process. Just watching how ridiculous the presidential primaries have been. Eventually I went from writing an ultra critical album to a more satirical album (slight, but significant difference). This was just the result of my process where I try to slow down the songwriting process in order to let inspiration evolve.