A SPRING MAY WELL UP [LP]
released September 27, 2024
This album was written in the years of the pandemic, during which I experienced a deep season of artistic drought. It is meant as an encouragement, after learning that musicians and poets aren’t the only ones who lose their song sometimes. If you know what that feels like, I hope these songs sound like healing to you.
With love,
Jacob
Credits:
Lauren Goins - piano, vocals, accordion
Andrew Goins - upright bass
Donevan Greenwood - drums & percussion (01, 04, 07, 12)
Owen Grooms - banjo (01), baritone banjo (13), mandolin (09)
Bobby Morrison - percussion (06)
Pav Templeton - drums & percussion (13)
Jacob Goins - acoustic, classical, and baritone guitars, vocals, banjo (06, 09, 10, 11), mandolin (02), hammered dulcimer, electric bass
All songs written by Jacob Goins / ASCAP,
except (09), written by Jacob Goins and Owen Grooms
Recorded and mixed by Jacob Goins
Mastered by Dave Wilton
Artwork by Bonnie Logan / Inkish Murmuring
Layout by Alex Hamlin
Recorded between 2021 and 2024, mainly in Andrews NC
with additional recording in Brasstown, Banner Elk, and Brevard NC
Warm thanks to:
Lauren, Andrew, Donevan, Owen, Pav, Dave,
Bonnie Logan, Alex Hamlin, Bobby & Hannah Morrison,
Anna Rose & Graham Garrett, Kevin & Jess Schlereth,
Steverson & Bess Moffat, Clayton & Julie Williams,
Christ Community Church, our sweet families, and to each of our kind supporters on Kickstarter who enabled us to realize this project to the fullest.
A SPRING MAY WELL UP [SINGLE]
Released September 13, 2024
The second single and title track from Jacob’s album, A Spring May Well Up
Credits:
Written, recorded, and mixed by Jacob Goins
Mastered by Dave Wilton
Drums: Donevan Greenwood
Piano: Lauren Goins
Classical Guitars, Bass: Jacob Goins
Cover Art: part of a larger piece by Bonnie Logan
CREEKSIDE PRAYER [SINGLE]
Released August 23, 2024
The first single from Jacob’s album, A Spring May Well Up
Credits:
Written, Produced, and Mixed by Jacob Goins
Mastered by Dave Wilton
Upright Bass: Andrew Goins
Piano, Vocals: Lauren Goins
Guitars, Banjo, Vocals: Jacob Goins
IN THE TWILIGHTING [EP]
released November 20, 2020
songs of the very last light of day; the hour of cold and dim; the time when one’s spirit yearns for the sun again with its riches of warmth and shimmering light. It’s a time of plaintive reminiscence; of placidness in the depth of shadow and imagination as the blanket of the night slowly begins to enfold. It’s a time for sighs. For a serene kind of mourning.
Dusk is the safe bed of grief. Its gentle light begs no solutions.
This is the follow up release to my EP, song of the city, both of which are about dusk. Though it only spans five songs, this crepuscular work was designed to be as robust as possible. I aimed to write as complete of a story as I could with only 5 songs. Twilight, after all, only lasts but a short time. Still, the hour is no less fulfilled for its brevity. I have attempted to accomplish the same concise fulfillment. My friend Micah Taylor terms this as a “short story”. I affectionately call it the same.
Dusk causes me to think of the end of beloved times. It causes me to think of seasons of life that fade much in the same way as the sun at the close of day. Our lives, indistinct in history, have their own way of seasons and are as impermanent as the autumn light. When leaving a beloved time behind, I find myself looking back with such fondness, and feeling no comfort from the post-sunset light; only a hollow chill that reaches to my bones as I realize that I don’t know what’s going to happen next. And yet, even in the somber light, I find the strength to hope again in the Lord, who is our only light, even when there’s little visible light before me. For what other hope do we have? It is hope in a strength which exists beyond faith and seeing. It is a mystery.
Mostly I still feel cold. And my prayers at this time most often end without resolution.
While dwelling at length upon these things, in the twilighting, I have found that dusk is no time for explanations. It’s a time for waiting.
Bandcamp:
Credits:
Produced by Joel Hamlin, Micah Taylor, Jacob Goins, and Hannah Wyatt
Engineered and mixed by Micah Taylor
Additional engineering by Joel Hamlin, Jacob Goins, and Dowell Gandy
Mastered by Dave Wilton at Coalesce Audio
Recorded January 2020 at Echo Mountain Recording, Asheville NC
Strings recorded in the Gaither Chapel, Montreat NC
Andrew Goins: upright bass
Hannah Wyatt: piano, vocals (tracks 01 and 05), timpani, glockenspiel, shaker
Jacob Goins: vocals, guitar
Jan Daugherty: viola
Jonlyn R. L. Siniard: violin
Marco Del Cid: drums
Strings arranged by Joel Hamlin
All songs written by Jacob Goins (ASCAP) with the exception of “Clouds of Waiting, Clouds of Returning”, written by Jacob Goins and Hannah Wyatt.
Photos by Jacob, Design by Joel Hamlin
SONG OF THE CITY - [EP]
^click image to see EP web page^
Released February 26, 2020
In the summer of 2019, I lived out of my vehicle in and around Lafayette, Colorado. I was an intern under the masterful artists/producers, Dave Wilton (A Boy and his Kite, Loud Harp) and Aaron Strumpel. Learning from them was truly a life-changing experience and I am ever grateful to them.
My week with Aaron and Dave ended on Thursday afternoons, during which I would drive up into the mountains for the weekend to hike, camp, and soak in the beauty of the Colorado wilderness. I spent these long weekends alone.
This quiet EP is a journal of this time. It was written and compiled in solitary nights atop windy and pine covered hills, nestled in the high-altitude valleys of former mining towns, and beside campfires in rugged boulder fields.
It was a time of strained, long distance relationship. It was a time of being distinctly away from home. Because of these things, even while I was in these grand and silent places, I was often of an unsettled and anxious heart. Though I was in the serene wilderness, my mind and heart often felt more like a busy and unkindly city.
These are songs of evening and candlelight, of anxiety and striving, and of yearning for the presence of the Lord and my best friend.
Bandcamp:
Credits:
Recorded to cassette in early August, 2019 at Coalesce Audio and Shovel Studios in Lafayette, Colorado by the kindness of Dave Wilton and Aaron Strumpel.
Performed by Jacob Goins (guitars & vocals), and Lauren Herrington (piano).
Produced by Jacob Goins.
Track 01 produced and arranged by Joel Hamlin using only raw material from the other songs.
All songs written by Jacob Goins (ASCAP), with the exception of 'You Are My Sunshine' which was written by Charles Mitchell and Jimmie Davis (Peer International Corp).
Cover photo by Jacob, designed by Joel Hamlin.
SUNRISE SONG (FOR THE POOR) -[Single]
Released November 23, 2018
An Isaiah-inspired song for the Christmas Season.
Bandcamp:
Credits:
Upright Bass performed by Andrew Goins
Written and engineered by Jacob Goins
Mastered with LANDR
JOURNALS FROM A SQUALL -[LP]
Released November 28, 2017
Using descriptive arrangements and vivid poetry, these songs tell the story of a young boy’s venture through a series of thunderstorms that cause him to have a central shift in perspective, with part one telling the story and part two expounding upon it.
'Journals from a Squall' was fully written and recorded over the course of a year and a half as a visual album. The visual counterpart is available in full on YouTube.
Bandcamp:
Tracklist:
An Innocence, A Naivety
A Warning Breath
First Rain
A Story to Tell
In the Silence of a Solitude
Curtain’s Drawn Away
Roots to Stand (end of Pt. I)
Dear Faithful Friend (beginning of Pt II)
Apology [Lauren Herrington]
Unrolling Thunder (An Exhale of Grace)
Author,
Shelter
Credits:
Andrew Goins- Upright Bass, Tracks 2, 3, 7, 10; Electric Bass, Track 5
Lauren Herrington- Piano, Tracks 1, 4, 6, 7, 9
Joel Hamlin- Co-Production, Cymbal, Track 3; Tambourine, Track 10
Marco Consuegra- Djembe, Tracks 5, 10
Amy Rassmussen- Piano, Track 5
Austin Watson- Electric Guitar, Track 10
Hannah Wyatt- Electric Bass, Track 12
Jacob Goins- Acoustic Guitars, Classical guitars, Electric Guitars, Ukulele, Banjo, Vocals, Violin bow bounces, Claps, Lap, Djembe, Glockenspiel, Bottlecaps, and other various percussion.
Concept, and story of tracks 1-7 by Maddie Taylor.
Track 9 written and performed by Lauren Herrington. All other songs written by Jacob Goins.
Engineered, Produced, and Mixed by Jacob Goins.
Mastered with LANDR.