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Count Me Out · Featured album

“Count Me Out” is a ten-track rock album about survival without swagger. It moves from finding love, through losing it, through duty and accountability, into hearing your own voice for the first time, reaching across distance, defying everyone who counted you out, and finally turning outward to whoever’s listening.

Heavy guitars, clean-to-grit vocal contrast, dual-male and male-female duets, one odd-time section per song. Confessional but not weak. Defiant but not bitter. Hopeful but earned.

The tracklist

1. 01

   The Love Beneath the Noise

   Falling in love means letting her see him hesitate. When he finally goes quiet, she pulls up a chair.

   Inspired by: The moment vulnerability stops being scary because someone stays for it.

2. 02

   I Loved You Standing

   Two people still love each other and choose to leave. Each tells the breakup in their own voice, right down to the joke about the box marked “fragile.”

   Inspired by: The honesty of a mutual ending where nobody’s the villain.

3. 03

   Where I Wake Up

   He wakes up beside someone new. His ex sees them together and wants him back. Three perspectives tell the same morning from different sides.

   Inspired by: Realizing how different the same morning looks depending on who’s living it.

4. 04

   One Rose Whiteout

   He remembers walking through a Pennsylvania blizzard with one rose for his first love. Years later, he can still picture the walk and the distance that eventually separated them.

   Inspired by: The walk really happened. Looking back, memory feels like that weather, beautiful and blinding at the same time.

5. 05

   Three Hours

   Charlie Company needs someone. Within three hours he’s packed and caught a convoy. That’s what it meant for people to count on him.

   Inspired by: In the military, readiness could be measured by the time between getting the call and getting on the convoy.

6. 06

   I Knew

   He owns his part in the end of his marriage. Duty explains some missed calls. He can account for the others, too. In the end, he’s the one who packs and moves out.

   Inspired by: The hardest part of the confession was saying he knew what was happening and stayed quiet.

7. 07

   First Time Out Loud

   At forty-six, he hears his own voice inside a finished song for the first time. The second male singer plays the recording talking back through the speakers.

   Inspired by: He remembered taking one breath into a mic. Hearing a whole song come back left him stunned enough to ask for it again.

8. 08

   Can’t Stop Me From You

   A deployed soldier and the woman holding home together know each other by the smallest signals. Two taps on the phone line and a porch light carry them through until their voices meet on the title.

   Inspired by: A fictional love story built around the pull of home and a connection that survives distance, danger, and orders.

9. 09

   Count Me Out

   He lived in a car while working a corporate job, went through two divorces and two Iraq deployments, and lost Army brothers. He never counted on talent or luck to keep him on his feet. He kept getting back up.

   Inspired by: A drill sergeant’s saying stayed with him through a lifetime of being written off: “Head down. Charge forward. Like a bull in breach.”

10. 10

    Start Here

    After love, loss, duty, confession, and defiance, he turns to whoever’s listening. The same words open and close the song: “If you want to know me, start here.”

    Inspired by: He wanted a stranger to hear their own life in a line. That’s why the record ends with an invitation.

Passport Stamped · Tracklist

1. 01

   Lanasa Nomad

   3:19
2. 02

   Eternal Spring - Medellín

   3:24
3. 03

   Sugarloaf Sunsets - Rio

   3:22
4. 04

   Midnight Tango - Buenos Aires

   4:21
5. 05

   Neon Rain - Tokyo

   3:19
6. 06

   Land of Smiles - Thailand

   3:28
7. 07

   Charts on the Beach - Philippines

   3:19
8. 08

   Second Act - Vietnam

   3:19
9. 09

   La Famiglia - Sicily

   3:29
10. 10

    Boricua Blood - Puerto Rico

    3:17
11. 11

    Built to Last - China

    3:50