Unsung Passage

Pale November Dew

Time Spent In Between

There Will Be A Time

No Rain, No Rose

Rough Johns

After the Promise is a quiet, acoustic indie folk album about what remains when love ends without drama.

These songs live in the aftermath. The mornings after the vows stopped echoing. The long drives, the empty rooms, the honest self-reckoning that follows a relationship that didn’t explode, but simply expired.

Stripped-down guitars, husky vocals, and minimal arrangements carry stories of commitment, endurance, memory, and acceptance. There’s no villain here. No rewritten past. Just truth, reflection, and the slow work of learning how to carry what was yours and set down what wasn’t.

This album isn’t about heartbreak as spectacle.
It’s about dignity, accountability, and moving forward without bitterness.

Headphones recommended. Late nights encouraged.

If Love Had a Timestamp

Fleeting Days

I don’t know who I was before you
I don’t know who I am now
But for a few months it felt like I had it all figured out
But that was so long ago
I don’t know where I’m going
I don’t know where you are now
But I guess it’s always been that way
But I guess I just never really change
Sometimes, late at night
Every song of yours that reaches me
Sounds like it’s singing to me
Are you singing to me
I quickly push that thought away
Because I know that you’d tell me not everything’s about me
You keep me in check

check

Even the Darkness Has Arms

Sometimes The Blues Is Just A Passing Bird

The Dreamer

Furr

Singer/songwriter Joe Kaplow lives in a four-acre mansion in the hills of Santa Cruz. Of course, he shares the space with a group of hippies, some rats, and some very dilapidated floors and walls... but it does have a swimming pool.

For Kaplow, becoming a full-time musician - and adopting the lifestyle that often accompanies it - didn’t happen by accident. Having moved from farm life and family in New Jersey to the rich Santa Cruz music community, Kaplow has often found himself living paycheck to paycheck as he departs on three-month U.S. solo tours, records music in various bedrooms of the house where he lives, rehearses with his new band and writes constantly, dedicating himself fully and lovingly to the craft of songwriting.

Kaplow’s debut album Time Spent In Between is  simultaneously grounded and exploratory; the music is equal parts  intimate and expansive.  With raw instrumentation and earthy vocal melodies, Time Spent In Between is rich with folk songwriting brilliance.

There Will Be A Time

Joe Kaplow

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