Wade Bowen Somewhere Between the Secret and the Truth LP

"I was trying to find where I fit musically again. I wasn't really sure if it was Americana or if it was country or if it was rock - I was all over the place with my songwriting and my career. Ironically enough, COVID really gave me a chance to just turn my brain off a little bit and stop thinking. When I came out on the other side I found not only a renewed sense of my music and wanting to get out and play again, but I found a renewed sense of self. I really felt I found who I wanted to be as a writer, as a singer, as an artist. I hate to just say country music or more country-oriented but that's really what it came down to and the simplicity of it. I really wanted the simplicity of the songs to carry themselves and carry the album and lead us all the way through the live show; where the simplicity creates these big, massive sounding songs and that's what I feel like we got from this record.

"I'm just trying to put my own personal spin on what I think is great about country music. I'm not reinventing the wheel here; I'm writing about things that have been written about a million times; you just try to put your own spin on things and I really feel like that's what this album's strength is: it's traditional country roots but it has a vintage Wade Bowen feel to it lyrically and sonically." - Wade Bowen