Muncie

Muncie is the classic small American city. But for much of the past two centuries, the city fell victim to murder, corruption and the bizarre. Mayor Rollin Bunch went to prison for mail fraud, while his police commissioner faced a murder rap.

The songs on this album were recorded between the years of 2002 and 2005 in Muncie, Indiana. At that time, I’d just met the Lord in a radical way, and had dropped out of art school to live in a church intern house with 14 other guys. We lived a sort of loose monastic existence including prayer, scripture study, and roasting coffee in the church where we interned as unpaid staff. At night we gathered together for meals and took turns sharing the one room in the house that was set aside to be a place of solitude and creativity.