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4/3/26 – Google Maps & Garmins are amazing, but sometimes you gotta turn off the GPS and go where you wanna go, not where a computer says. And especially when you’re young, everyone you know gives you advice about how to get to where you wanna be. Like a GPS, family & friends mean well, but there’ll come a time when you’ll go your own way, in your own way. No matter which road you take though, as long as you keep the Center the center, you’re still on the right path.

The Process

As the sound for this song came together, I decided it could really use some intimate fingerstyle acoustic guitar, so I recorded that before any vocals or flugelhorn. As usual, I was making final lyric tweaks in the vocal session — but I wouldn’t have it any other way; I so love the process of recording and producing music for you to vibe to, whether it be on the subway, in the car, a cozy evening at home… Thanks for listening. – check back for a new song in May; follow me on Spotify to be the first to hear it, or sign up for the email list here.

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On My Way music & lyrics © 2026 Knox Summerour / Knox Drive Music (ASCAP)
Produced, Vocals, Flugelhorn, & Guitar by Knox Summerour
℗ 2026 Knox Summerour / Little Paradise Road

2/26/26 – The word love has more meaning than the English language suggests; in Greek there are 4 different words for love. What we call “romantic” love probably fits the Greek eros best. To me, the onrushing feelings of romantic love, especially at the start, are like a sandstorm rushing in. Eventually it passes by, but when it’s around you it can be, as the song says, blinding.

The Lyrics: I’m a fan of keeping a hand-written notebook of song ideas / lyrics; it’s a great way to see how the process of lyric writing has come together by looking back at crossed-out lines, words, alternative rhymes in parentheses, etc. Lately I’ve been using the iphone’s Notes app to do basically the same thing, and I think it’d be fun, going forward, to share with some lyric screenshots from each song so you can peek inside the process. Here are a few screenshots for Sandstorm. I hope you dig em – just keep in mind that sometimes I don’t finalize the lyrics 100% until I’m in the vocal recording booth, hearing how everything fits together with the music.

Looking back, Sandstorm probably could’ve been a Valentines Day release – but now you’ll just have to listen to it all year, especially on 2/14.

Thanks for stopping by. Stay tuned for another new song in March; follow me on Spotify to get notified of the exact release date.

Listen to Sandstorm on AppleMusic

for A.A.S.

Sandstorm music & lyrics © 2026 Knox Summerour / Knox Drive Music (ASCAP)
Produced, Vocals, Flugelhorn, & Guitar by Knox Summerour
℗ 2026 Knox Summerour / Little Paradise Road

1/23/26 – I wrote this one as a reminiscence of moving to California and my time here in the golden state, far from home. As musicians and creative people, sometimes when we up and move ourselves to a place, we don’t know what we’re gonna do, who we’re gonna do it with, or where we’re gonna go.

C.S. Lewis wrote, “Life is lived forward, and understood backward.” Little by little, if we keep Faith, we meet the special people, go to the special places, and do the special things that make everything make sense in retrospect. Eventually, we find the reason why.

Thanks for listening. If this song resonated, you’ll probably like what’s coming next.

Listen to The Reason Why on AppleMusic

for S.M.S.

The Reason Why music & lyrics © 2026 Knox Summerour / Knox Drive Music (ASCAP)
Produced, Vocals, Flugelhorn, & Guitar by Knox Summerour
℗ 2026 Knox Summerour / Little Paradise Road