"If you take The Bluegrass Parkway across Kentucky and head south on Highway 555 towards Lebanon, you’ll find yourself at the geographic center of the state, where the Mississippi Plateau meets the Outer Bluegrass. They call this region The Knobs in reference to the scores of monadnocks, the geologic formations that seem to rise from the landscape as if by force of will, abruptly announcing themselves in contrast to plains so level and static it's disquieting. These brazen topographic anomalies are otherworldly in the striking way they evoke some long-forgotten prehistoric epoch with their majestic Harrodsburg limestone caprocks and precipitous Bordon shale slopes. Wending their way through the lowlands are branch waters -- distant tributaries of the Kentucky River to the east -- which together form the complex watershed that’s the source for everything from holy water to the distillate precursor of the clear spirit called white dog, which is aged in charred oak barrels to make bourbon whiskey -- a dichotomy befitting this land that in a way seems set upon the juncture of salvation and sin. From the Triple 5, you take Bloomfield Road to the Beech Fork and follow that branch west to Bardstown, where you can visit My Old Kentucky Home and the distillery where they make Ten High whiskey, which is aged in casks stored ten ricks high for best flavor. Just north is the town of Fairfield, which is a far 825 miles from Fairfield, Connecticut, the New England home of Hitch & the Giddyup. But those Kentucky branch waters have a way of closing that gap as they reach rivers and oceans, until there's no real distance between Beech Fork Creek and Long Island Sound. When you make that trip, you’ll want to bring this record as your soundtrack since, like the region itself, the music sits precisely at the place where salvation meets sin."

- Rico Cass, November 2018