The older I get, the less nervous I get about songwriting. This album was the culmination of a rough period in my life, where making music became less of a priority. There was a time where I wondered if I was done making albums. When I wrote the Awake demos, I was comforted to know … Continue reading Little Lights – 2015

I finished writing the last songs for the Come On Pilgrim! album sometime in 2011, and there was a lot of personal turmoil that followed. I didn’t write another song for nearly two years. Sometimes that’s the way it works – you can have so many feelings going on that it makes it impossible to … Continue reading Awake (Demos 2013) – 2015

Unlike all of the other albums here, this one was a truly collaborative effort. I had put a band together to play Perestroika live, and I had been so encouraged by the process that I thought we should write and record the next album together as a band. I put everything I had into writing … Continue reading Come On Pilgrim! (w/ Come On Pilgrim!) – 2012

I started working on this album alongside Wild Wild Love. Back then, the working title was Lies and it was a darker record. The tone was one of succumbing to forces beyond your control. Eventually (and thankfully), it became more like a battle, as the voice of resistance began to find its way through. I’ve … Continue reading Perestroika – 2010

There was a period of time in the late 90s and early 2000s where I found it really hard to find good new music. I wasn’t cool enough to be in on the indie scene at that point, and the last good music on the radio had died out around 1995. So it was very … Continue reading Wild Wild Love – 2008

I’m sure no one who’s heard The Rockford Files will be surprised that the concept came to me almost immediately after hearing Sufjan Stevens’ Illinois in the summer of 2005 (I had actually written and recorded a version of “The Lights at Churchill Park” before leaving on tour that fall, but I ended up putting … Continue reading The Rockford Files – 2007

In the fall of 2005, I did something I had never done before: I booked myself a two-month tour spanning the entire eastern half of the United States. From New York to Florida, Nahsville to Texas, Omaha to Chicago, I went anywhere they would have me. At the time I was booking the tour, I … Continue reading Josh Caress Goes On An Adventure! – 2006

Before Letting Go Of A Dream, I thought of myself as a songwriter. I wrote songs. Anything I had put together was a collection of some songs I had written. Though I had been writing songs since I was 11 years old and had made a number of homemade “albums,” I had spent most of … Continue reading Letting Go Of A Dream – 2005

I know, I know. It’s been a long time. While many of these songs were begun as early as 2016, so much life has been happening. Many song ideas came and went. New songs came and this album began to take shape. The title has always been there, but its meaning has been fluid over … Continue reading It’s A Movie It’s A Dream – 2020