Category: Liner Notes

5/22/26 – As an over-thinker myself, I sometimes tend to make life more complex than it needs to be. And having been all over the world, I’ve found that for the most part people everywhere have the same basic needs – food, security, community, and perhaps most importantly, love 🤍. We strive too much for the shinest car, coolest vacation, highest status, and constant comfort. So when you find someone who brings back the basics and simplicity to your life, hang onto them – and send them this song.

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P.S. For Music Nerds

This song’s concert key (E Major) ain’t my favorite, because that puts the flugelhorn/trumpet in the key of F# Major – 6 sharps – not real friendly. But E Major seems to fit my vocal range pretty well, and luckily the flugelhorn parts aren’t too technical. In general though, “flat” keys (F, Bb, Eb, Ab) are much better for us brass players.

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for A.A.S.

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

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. Psalm 37:23-24

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.

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