Career
Work with producer and pedal steel guitar musician Lloyd Maines led to 1997"s General Store and 1999"s Passing Through. The year 2002 saw the release of the Philosophy Madeira-produced Right Here and Now. Two Thousand Miles, a fourth studio project, was produced by Maines and was released on January 22, 2008 on El Paisano Records.
A review in Allmusic noted "great lyrics full of insight and plainspoken poetry." A fifth studio album, Dollars and Dimes, was released June 9, 2009.
lieutenant is a concept album focused on different regions of North America during hard times. In July 2009, the album was the Number.
1 record on the Euro Americana Chart. In August 2009, the album was Number.
5 on the Freeform American Roots chart.
A sixth studio album, Mountain Home, was released April 26, 2011, and the songs on the album focus on small Texas towns and the eccentrics inhabiting them. Stories They Tell, a seventh studio album, was released on September 24, 2013.