So it was.
I recall now.
I was never
given to
calm down.
Calm down now.
Calm down 
~

guitar, vocals ~ daniel lobb / @soitwasmusic 
piano ~ dan dorff jr. 
flute, clarinets, sax ~ alexis marsh / @alexisdyan 
piano ~ DMM
produced ~ daniel martin moore 
mastered ~ mike montgomery 

So It Was (2019), the self-titled debut from Louisville Kentucky’s So It Was is an album filled with rich (and sometimes surprising) arrangements all centered around the intricate guitar and engaging voice of songwriter Daniel Lobb. These 10 songs (begun in the States and finished during a stint in France) are bound together by a quiet intensity and their sheer loveliness. In the same way that The Other Years, Joan Shelley, and Nathan Salsburg require the listener to tune-in, this record asks for your time and attention. If you want to really hear it, you’ll need to make space. It offers to you, in return, a golden heart and moments of transcendent beauty. 

(((OkRecordings)))

so it was...

Early in the verbal hours I
twine the time to day.
Thoroughly as the tulip flowers,
laying the line too late.
Always too late.

Fledgling words unwound all grow in this body
long after the sowers breaking ground are gone.
Cursive me in brown
sunk down in Ohio-u-alluvial-ooo.

Gnawing down to bone bedrock like a taproot
flowing up with sap long after winds have changed.
I come to hope like rope held taut to the bloom
pulled forth to the source by always.
By sowers sewing.
~

guitar, vocals ~ daniel lobb / @soitwasmusic 
piano ~ dan dorff jr. 
flute, clarinets, sax ~ alexis marsh / @alexisdyan 
piano ~ DMM
produced ~ daniel martin moore 
mastered ~ mike montgomery 

So It Was (2019), the self-titled debut from Louisville Kentucky’s So It Was is an album filled with rich (and sometimes surprising) arrangements all centered around the intricate guitar and engaging voice of songwriter Daniel Lobb. These 10 songs (begun in the States and finished during a stint in France) are bound together by a quiet intensity and their sheer loveliness. In the same way that The Other Years, Joan Shelley, and Nathan Salsburg require the listener to tune-in, this record asks for your time and attention. If you want to really hear it, you’ll need to make space. It offers to you, in return, a golden heart and moments of transcendent beauty. 

(((OkRecordings)))

early in...

You taught
me to
tip-toe.
No one hears me
step into the morning sun,
oh, and so on.

And so on our soft glow,
quiet walkers.
Step into the morning sun,
oh,
and so on.
~

guitar, vocals ~ daniel lobb / @soitwasmusic 
piano ~ dan dorff jr. 
flute, clarinets, sax ~ alexis marsh / @alexisdyan 
piano ~ DMM
produced ~ daniel martin moore 
mastered ~ mike montgomery 

So It Was (2019), the self-titled debut from Louisville Kentucky’s So It Was is an album filled with rich (and sometimes surprising) arrangements all centered around the intricate guitar and engaging voice of songwriter Daniel Lobb. These 10 songs (begun in the States and finished during a stint in France) are bound together by a quiet intensity and their sheer loveliness. In the same way that The Other Years, Joan Shelley, and Nathan Salsburg require the listener to tune-in, this record asks for your time and attention. If you want to really hear it, you’ll need to make space. It offers to you, in return, a golden heart and moments of transcendent beauty. 

(((OkRecordings)))