It really is love that brought me here. In the sense that everything I’ve done musically has been a result of how encouraged, championed, financed, applauded, lauded, sometimes humored but always loved I’ve been by my family, my friends and my partner - Chelsea Jack. They treated my music like it had already gone platinum when it was still barely in tune. They brought the love. I tried to bring the music.

I'd been hacking around on the guitar for years, not really making much headway in any direction. I'd never written an original song. In my main squeeze, as an actor, I was already a cover artist, interpreting and animating someone else's words and ideas. I wasn't down with covering anything else. I wanted to find my own voice.

It wasn't until I wrote my first song while on a trip to London, about a decade ago now, that I got serious about playing music. And then I wrote some other songs.

And then, while spending some days and nights in New Haven CT, I wrangled a little band together (Old Man & The Young) with some super hot cats from the Yale School of Music (Eliud Garcia, Eric Adamshick, Theo Van Dyck) and others (The Divine Nathan Debrine).

And then I recorded the album of those songs with the supremely talented and soulful Eben Pariser (Roosevelt Dime, Goodnight Moonshine) producing and his supremely sublime wife, Molly Venter (Red Molly), singing some killer vocals with me. And the otherworldly trumpet talent, Theo Van Dyck, laid down some horns. The transcendent Liz Rauch (Tall County) on fiddle. Boss Little Drummer Boy, Doug Yowell, BK Bassist Adam Chilenski, Eben on everything...other sweet souls, too.

And a special shout out to my crew, Team Tattersall, for The Trying video: Captain Kirk, Allie and Megan on cine; Tiny Muffin on off-site catering; and Griffin Hurlbut on pet wrangling. Also also — the fantastically talented Glenn Weinrich took the photos for this site, the album, et al. These people rock my world.

Y'all, as my friend Bridget Everett says (and she says it cause LL Cool J said it first): DDHD, baby.