Hi.  What I'm trying to do here is find a channel for the music I've written and recorded in this life.  I tried making an album when I was 17.  It was shit.  I mean just really bad.  I followed up by recording a second shit album, which I did not release.  

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The problem was I had no foundational experience.  I was 17 and I was from southeast Iowa.  So I got sick of singing about nothing and decided to explore this life a little instead of continuing to act like I knew what I was talking about (I still do that sometimes).  I moved to Portland in 2004.  I started taking 911 calls in 2006.

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A few years into that I wrote with my friend Adam Cerrillo on a project called "What You Need", after the Twilight Zone episode.  Those songs ended up on a couple unreleased recordings, and some of them were pretty good.  I got really into David Bazan's "Headphones" project and made my own acoustic electro-pop album that I called "Dog Politics".  That turned out pretty good too.  That one was followed up by another full album that I was planning on calling "Craig Caves" before I did, in fact, cave and never found the space or energy to release those songs.  

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I had to leave Portland 911.  If you live in the city, you can probably understand why.  I had poured over a decade of my adult life into a mission that ended up damaging my wellness a little bit.  My wife asked me to leave before it killed me.  So we did.  After a year or so of soul rebuilding I went back to taking 911 calls at a new agency.  So far so good.

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I'm gonna release all these songs and any new stuff I come up with under this project.  This will be the last project, and I hope to be building it for years to come.  Enjoy these songs.  Be encouraged.  

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- Craig