Music For Maternity

Strand of Oaks’ Timothy Showalter has never been a confessional songwriter. His 2010 album, Pope Killdragon, was a sort of sci-fi creation, featuring his story of Dan Aykroyd avenging the death of the late John Belushi. But the process for his newest record, Heal, has been different. Influenced by a personal realization that he (in the lyrics of “Goshen ’97”) had become “fat, drunk and mean,” Showalter began to change his life. He wrote a record about it. And then a terrible Christmas Day car accident involving two semi trucks changed him even further. Read more here…