Tried to Do's [Brown Vinyl]

Trippers & Askers - Tried to Do's [Brown Vinyl]

"Tried To Do's is the second full length album from Trippers & Askers - the songwriting and recording project of Jay Hammond. Drafts of this record started as early as 2019. The initial idea was a Parable of the Talents concept album to follow 2021's Parable of the Sower concept album Acorn and/or an album about Hammond's hometown of Jackson, TN. Many moves, much traveling and many losses later - the loss of his future child, the loss of his grandmother, the near loss of his father in law, and the hit of hurricane Helene in his adopted hometown of Asheville, NC - this record became a record about loss. It's a record about ways of mourning, ways of "re-membering", both with the family in which Hammond was raised as a child and the family of which he has come to inhabit multiple roles as an adult.