Joe Foster's first full length album, Adrift, produced and mastered by Ryan J. Lane, reflect his passion and drive for people, place, music, and storytelling. Adrift takes place between the hard and fast pace of the urban landscape and rural isolation of the Midwest. Seeking to find redemption in both he captures faith and life, and the balance between them. Adrift............... As more and more people leave rural America, small towns don't just cease to exist, they fall apart. It became clear to me when my hometown lost their grocery store. It was the last place where people could gather, gossip, and share their daily lives. I was grieved by the news, and out of this, the concept for "Adrift" was formed. The title track "Adrift", sets the stage for the project, "...Down a dirt road, last house on the lane, she draws another line across another phone book name......We're just adrift between these wheat fields...somewhere under this open sky...no one's coming only leaving...would the last one to leave here.....please turn out the lights............ ' " Nobody Want to Be Alone....... Living in downtown Portland I could see from my apartment window to other peoples windows; some where watching sports center, some reading, others fighting, talking, brushing their teeth, and staring out their windows. I wondered what where they thinking. In a busy city with so much see and do, it was amazing how alone people seemed. Community can be lost even in a crowd, and "Nobody wants to be Alone" explores this notion. "He stares out of the window... as the leaves they fall....a dark cloud covers his heart but he still holds on....watching, worrying, waiting...Waiting for her call... Nobody wants to be alone.... " Hunger....... Reading the classic novel, 'Robinson Crusoe', by Daniel Defoe I was inspired by a single line. To set the scene, the ship wrecked, main character attempts to domesticate sheep and by mistake captures a large ram that almost kills him. In hind sight he says with hunger he could have carried the ram out of the trap on his shoulders and thus "with hunger you can tame a lion and make it meek as a lamb." This line stuck with me for months. And it became clear to me that it was the same story of Adam and Eve's exit of the Garden of Eden. I wrote it as if I was in their shoes and felt Hunger for the first time ...... " Walking thought the desert...this skin is not like armor...caught up in these thistles and thorns.....As the leaves fall faintly leaving the trees looking bare.....its a wonder that we've made it this far......And the stars are not as bright out here.....our feet and minds are heavy, walking here in silence....even in the distance Your near......and Hunger, Hunger, Hunger can tame a lion and make it meek as lamb...." The song is not about what they did, it's about coming to terms with the situation. It is really a story of redemption. That is always a good story.