McNamara plays a variety of instruments on the release,, which drops on Friday, March 10, and happily explores new sonic territory on the nine-track album.
McNamara first met a few of the people who would become his Trout Steak Revival bandmates while working as a camp counselor back in the Great Lakes State. The campfire pickers later migrated to Colorado, where McNamara took up the banjo and began playing and touring with TSR as a full-time pursuit. When COVID hit, he decided to make use of the downtime to scratch his old creative itch.
"This solo effort was an opportunity to explore new territory for me," says McNamara, who did everything from penning, performing and recording the tunes to lining up the cover art ."I love Trout Steak and the Trout Steak fans and all the stuff we've made, but sometimes I was desiring new artistic growth outside of that. One of the goals I had with this project was not to write bluegrass music. Interestingly, that opened up a lot of doors. I tried to just follow the songs.