Hi friends!

It’s been a while since I’ve sent one of these—it’s been a quiet year of working on things behind the scenes. I’m so excited to share that I just launched a kickstarter for my second studio album, Midwestern Goodbye.

This album reflects on my hometown, leaving it, and how life is made up of chapters from childhood schemes to living on your own. I write about the ways that love interacts with the passage of time—how time changes love, but also how love changes time.

If you're not familiar with the concept of the midwestern goodbye, it pokes fun at the midwestern impulse to take a million years to end a conversation. From "okay, goodbye now!" to "real quick before you go, did I tell you about—?" a hundred times. I am guilty of the midwestern goodbye not only in conversation, but also in life choices. I toyed with the idea of leaving Indiana for years, briefly left for Nashville, returned for a month, moved to NYC, had to return for two months when work was really slow, and then came back to Brooklyn this September. Lots of things in my life are cyclical like that, non-linear, they grow and they change but they also stay the same. Anyways, that's all kind of what this album is about. 

Recording an album without a whole bunch of quality-lowering shortcuts is EXPENSIVE! I need y’all’s help to pay my amazing producer, recording engineers, session musicians, mixing and mastering engineer, as well as for studio time and eventually physical copies of the album.

I know money is tight for a lot of us right now, and I definitely understand if you can’t contribute even if you want to. I really appreciate any who can just share this project!

Thank you for being here :-)

xoxo,

Copeland James

P.S. I promise my em-dashes are pure of heart (human-written) ;)