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I first saw Nick play at Matt Tonner's birthday party a few years ago.   He was really impressive.  Turns out we have a mutual friend and I ran into him again a few months later at a Halloween party where I introduced myself and we shot the breeze.

 

Shortly afterwards I bought his full length album the "Rest of Our Lives" and ooh boy, it's a good album.  I recognized I think three of the songs from the birthday party show; it's a good sign about the quality of a song when on a first live listen you think "damn that's a good song" and then you immediately know it when you hear it a second time.

 

The songwriting and lyric work on the entire album are top notch.   I ultimately leave it up to the artist to choose what song we do, but in this case I suggested either "Stand on My Shoulders" or "Rest of Our Lives," the former because I thought I could adapt the glockenspiel sounding riff at the beginning easily to the mandolin and the latter because it's my favorite song on the album.