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Peabody and Annie Awards–winning songwriter Alexis Harte built Thirsty from the ground up — dirt,

rust and roots first. Roughly 30 tracks emerged and were whittled down to these 11 songs, sculpted to

evoke times when life feels like it's practically disintegrating, but really rewarding us with some

hard-earned wisdom.

The album, Harte's seventh, is an unflinching journal through a gauntlet of transformative events over

the last handful of years: an out-of-the-blue heart attack on the studio floor; a mother's near-drowning,

decline, and passing from Parkinson's; a wife's breast cancer; a global pandemic; the rise of

homegrown fascism; and watching California dry out and burn.

Yet amid the weight, Thirsty captures deep moments of joy — finding beauty in the mundane (Spent

Sunday), a graceful resignation to aging (Old Volkswagen, All the Hard Work), and learning to forgive

and seek forgiveness (Partner). These songs came to Harte as uninvited houseguests: an infectious

rhythm loops endlessly, a melody hums from seemingly nowhere, stories paint themselves on the walls.

Thirsty is the guestbook — notes from the songs that took up residency. Now they've moved on to you.