Jensen McRae - It Wasn't Supposed To Be Like This...

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In 2021 I shot a live performance video for a song I wrote called ‘Adam’s Ribs.’ It’s one of my favorite pieces of art I’ve ever made, and for all of 2023 I have been thinking about it as I have trudged a winding and thorny path to my next record.

Album 2 isn’t ready - yet - so consider this era 1.5.

Playing live is one of my favorite things to do, so I thought I’d try to capture the magic of some of the live sets I’ve played on the road in the last year and a half. The only difference is, very few of you have heard any of these songs in their entirety. They’re brand new (well, new to you), and I performed them live, in studio, with just me and my guitar.

There is something so surreal about recognizing that you’re at one of life’s rare dividing lines—to know you are enduring something that has a Before and an After and you will never be the same. This project is about that—about splitting in two, accepting that half of you is gone, and trying to rebuild the rest from scratch.

It Wasn’t Supposed To Be Like This…

00:00 Intro
00:40 Fever Dream
04:05 Sing For My Supper
06:31 God Has A Hitman
10:14 Colma, CA
14:01 I Don't Miss You

Recorded at Speakeasy Studios in Burbank, CA
Engineered & Mixed by Paul Redel
Assistant Engineer: Leif Eisemann

Director: Mitchell Abraham
Production Co: Dojohouse
Executive Producer: Danny Pollack
Associate Producer: Wade Davis
Production Manager: Jesse Rojas
Cinematographer: Michael Morones
Assistant Camera: JT Boehme
Editor/Color: Mitchell Abraham
Production Assistants: Noah Zaidspiner, Janessa Bizarra, Lucinda Larnach, Iza Icaza
MUA: Bryan Mendez