Tucker Green is a dusty kind of familiar. His new record, Halfway to Daylight takes the old country sounds of lap steels and banjos and combines them with Americana guitar riffs to form an updated style of feel good rock. Shaped by a steady diet of Bruce Springsteen and Ryan Adams, Green’s timeless sound centers around the value of a well-written song. Halfway to Daylight was produced by Jonathan Anderson (Stabilo, Aiden Knight) and mastered by Ed Brooks (Death Cab for Cutie, Cat Power, Iron and Wine).

It is not because Kate is the size of jockey or because Damon was once kicked by a goat that An Horse bears its name. There’s no sense in that. A friend once gave Kate a sweater with An Horse written on it because he thought it was grammatically correct. It wasn’t and that was quite a long time ago but Kate still wears the sweater. She hasn’t grown in years. Damon still remembers the goat like it was yesterday.

As a child he wasn’t allowed to play with transformers; as an adult he writes songs about them. That pretty much sums up James Struthers, the light-hearted, shaggy-haired 20 year old, in a nutshell.

Struthers picked up his first guitar six years ago (a Yamaha that suffered an accidental, untimely death at the tires of a pickup truck), but considers himself more of a singer than a guitarist, “I think both are equally important in songwriting, but I’m more confident in my vocal range than my guitar prowess.”

Unlike most singer-songwriters – and musicians in general – Struthers doesn’t always rely on personal experiences for inspiration during the songwriting process. “I draw all of my inspiration from the first line that I write in a song, and it usually comes from nowhere; it’s very detached from myself,” explains Struthers. “However, I have written a lot of songs that have been firmly attached to my experiences or my life, whether intentionally or after the fact.”