Erin Heist - From the Land of Rusted Dreams (2022)

At the start of the pandemic I proposed a song-writing group to a variety of women that I had met in the bluegrass and old-time world. The bulk of the original songs on From the Land of Rusted Dreams were born out of that project. When I realized that my next step should be an album, I called up one of the other songwriters in the group, Gabrielle Macrae. Gabrielle proposed the exact plan that we put into place. She introduced Andrew and I to her dear friends Kati Claborn and her husband Luke Ydstie and along with Gabrielle's husband Barry Southern, the six of us spent a very fun, very rainy week in Astoria, OR recording in the cozy Rope Room Studio. For a first album, I couldn’t have been luckier in the dream team I had on this project, and I’m so thankful for the joy and friendship that resulted in this album. I hear it on every track and I hope you do too.

I'm so grateful to all the friends and family who have supported this dream and to try and list all my thank yous would take pages and pages. Thank you to every one of you who has helped me along this musical path, especially my forever favorite, Andrew & my mom and dad, Kate Troll and Bill Hanson, who have always supported my wild schemes.