Music is such a communal art, and it has touched me so deeply to see that reflected in the music I make. I have spent years using songwriting as a diary, I often joke that my guitar hears everything before anyone else, and I think my guitar sometimes hears everything instead of anyone else. Having people, strangers, be so receptive and kind about these songs has been such a profound experience for me.
Every night, I’ve ended the livestream with a very sappy, very sentimental, very dramatic speech about how much this has meant to me - but I really do mean it. Having 50 people listening to things that you assumed would go unknown forever is… I don’t have words for it. I am so grateful.
I said I would use Substack to push out some songs that are not ready for spotify/apple music/etc. I have chosen to attach Idaho today.
Although attached to this post, here is a Google Drive link as well where you can download both versions!
Versions:
I’ve attached the guitar version you hear on live, as well as the concept version I made on garage band. I’m nervous to add the concept version, but please know it’s meant to paint a picture of what I wanted it to sound like when I was weaving it into other projects. It was mixed for my ears only, but so was all of this - so I’ve chosen to share it in hopes that you might see the vision I had for it as well.
About Idaho:
Idaho is a song I wrote in August of 2024, it is about singleness and the struggle of wanting something so deeply that you get stuck imagining yourself in it and breaking your own heart. Idaho, as a state, is the subject of so many daydreams of mine. Whether it’s from the Gregory Alan Isakov song of the same name, the sound of it, or just the notion of a rural big sky state - when I imagine going on my dream vacation, it’s always a small cabin/house in rural Idaho, and all I do is look at the stars.
In my head, where these songs all truly had their own lives in a make pretend world, this song’s bridge held the namesake of a concept album, titled “Never Been”. I wrote about 15 songs exploring this concept (Including Colorado Knows, Sober in Miami, I Mean It, I’m So Close, and Haley). The idea was a piece about all the things I wasn’t, wasn’t yet, and never would be. Idaho fit into that so well, to the point that it inspired and breathed life into a project that is so close to my heart.
I love you because you exist,
Faith
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