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“They said the blues were six feet under. We’re still dancin’ on the dirt.”

Six Feet Above the Blues is a 15-track resurrection of grit, ghosts, and grit-your-teeth redemption. Born from rusted strings, roadside sermons, and moonshine confessions, this debut album blends Southern Gothic storytelling with boot-stomping energy and the haunted soul of outlaw folk.

Through swamp fog and shotgun sermons, you’ll meet:

A hollow-eyed preacher who barters salvation in shadows

A hellhound more loyal than any man

A banjo cursed with blood

And a narrator who swears “God Don’t Ride Shotgun”

Whether it’s the eerie waltz of “Rattlesnake Waltz,” the foot-stomping fury of “Train Don’t Stop for Sinners,” or the rowdy last call in “Ashes in the Ale,” this record walks the line between sin and salvation — and leans hard toward the former.

Fueled by banjo, bowed bass, gang vocals, and enough smoke to choke a saint, this is music for the outlaws, the almost-gone, and the ones who never stayed buried.

🪕 Come raise a glass with the damned — you’re only six feet above the blues, after all.
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Lantern in the Fog

Written & Produced by Kit Conway
Drums by Eric Derwallis

dog on the run, soon as you call
it's nothing at all
and i know you've been lost, 
you're not home it's not your fault
but i swear that i'm not trying to pick a fight

i'll be the one as soon as you like
pick up the pall, put it aside
but you see how you could 
fall on that kinda line?
and i know you've been lost, 
you're not home it's not your fault
but i swear that i'm not trying to pick a fight

but i can't escape the feeling
that maybe what we're seeing
is overload, an overgrow
that isn't healing soon
and i can't just skate the reasons
i'm saying what we're thinking is true
i don't mean that but sometimes i feel i do

you shoulda seen the kinda look they gave me
when i said i wasn't feeling quite into it lately!
john and helen they just gave it all away
but i'd like to think that i gave it a coupla more days
and do you get frightened when you think about me
stealing your conviction in life? did i waste your time?
i'm not angy, i'm just giving up the fight

but i can't mistake the feeling
that maybe what we're seeing
is over love, an open cut
that isn't peeling soon
and i can't just skate the reasons
i'm saying what we're thinking is true

Dog on the Run

I am not the same 
I wear a different name
I am ashamed 
of who I became
I don't know how to explain why i could still want things to have remained

I'll never know what it's like to let you go
But I hope you know it took every part of me to say no

There is a disarray 
to my mood everyday
I know that I'm a cliché
but I'm just in dismay
So I stare blankly in pain wondering why there are just no words to explain why I'm feeling this way

I'll never know what it's like to let you go
But I hope you know it took every part of me to say no

Every Part of Me

German Love

You've Been Drifting Out Of My Mind

Happy-Sounding Songs

There's No Reason

i feel alright

Stop looking in the mirror and start looking around.

MIRRORS

Took your city off my weather
it was stormy, rain cleared the air
Took your picture out my wallet
I could never look right past it

Unfollowed you on my SoundCloud
Somehow you heard that clear and loud
Took you off my costar best friends
The stars knew it would come to end

Is that all I can do?
Stuck in the past 
You’ll never last, dude

Blocked you on all of my socials
Let our fire die in motels
Still can’t seem to block ur number
Hung me dry but still wanting more

I still have a drawer of your things
Collect dust, I can’t take a peep
Stuck in a time far in the past
Take it with you, don’t you come back

Is that all I can do?
Stuck in the past 
You’ll never last, dude

There's No Reason

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