Jr. Parks, as a boy, silently observed and mentally catalogued the music and culture of his native Louisiana, fascinated with the unending mysteries it seemed to produce. Songwriting, though, only started to develop for him as a young man after a cross country move placed him in the care of the high desert. New Mexico is an arresting landscape of rocks and juniper trees that, in turn, replaced the native cypress and pine forests of his childhood home. A few decades, a few more cross country moves (Tennessee, North Carolina), and a few million miles as the vocalist/bass player for Nashville-based psych-rock band All Them Witches landed him at home in a cabin somewhere deep in the Ouachita Mountains. His acoustic debut reflects the bayou south, the bare heart of the desert, the mornings in Appalachia when everything is covered in mist, the miles traveled, the quiet, the late nights in nature, and the heartache and the grateful joy of a life on the road.
