"It matters to be human, so
song WRITING matters"

"I’ve never met you. I don’t know you. But without you there would be no musical adventure at all. So, thanks for dropping by. Thanks for listening. Thanks for being part of my world. I hope my music makes you smile. And feel. And think.

When we meet, we’ll have a lot to talk about."

 -- Steven Kalas

If it's real, then art is about the risk of being wholly oneself. The journey is costly beyond imagining.

For me, Lessons From the Dead records a particularly intense leg of that journey. In the near two years since this CD project was begun, my entire life has burned down and begun again.

You will hear songs celebrating love, and songs witnessing the helpless, inexorable unraveling of love. There are songs holding on for dear life against the onslaught of darkness and stupidity, and songs which smile, celebrate, and laugh. If you find any of these songs kicking your ass, rest assured they were written to first kick my own.

-- Steven Kalas