Product Description TS Leach’s debut EP Road of Bones is the logical and representative culmination of his life’s journey to date. The songs on Road of Bones were written during a period of personal circumstances no one should be expected to go through. A time that mixed mourning, anger and hatred for a senseless and vicious loss, unconditional love, confusion and depression, isolation and fear, with a tinge of hope, recovery and redemption through friends, family and creative expression. Scary. But you'll get it, when you hear his music. TS writes to exorcise experiences and feelings from life. He's dark but humorous. And he grooves. The music on Road of Bones found voice when TS met and began a collaboration with Tom Higgins in the mountains of North Carolina. It is dark, it is haunting, but also offers a tinge of hope for the future. TS's intelligent and thoughtful lyrics, set to fascinating melodic-harmonic construction composed by TS and Tom Higgins, with final instrumental arrangements by TS, pc muñoz and Mark Weibel, creatively and beautifully defy the norm. The collection will lift you up off your feet with a number of its more rockin’ rhythms and absorbing melodies. But as you grasp the lyrics, you'll ask yourself why you're dancing. A number of the songs are more cerebral, and rather bewitching in nature. These may arouse an odd mix of peace, tranquility, and uneasiness, as if you’re experiencing a rather surreal, and less-than-positive dream. Bottom line, Road of Bones will invite you to feel emotions, and to think thoughts, for good or ill, and likely both. Review "... story-telling lyrics, word pictures and solid musicianship... elements of classic Pink Floyd merged with some Lou Reed ... well done..." --ExMogul.com, June 5, 2006 About the Artist As when he flew for the Navy all over the world or served in the Persian Gulf, TS has been "under the radar" for years, strumming his guitar at small gatherings and cafes. Now he breaks out rocking and rolling over a torturous Road of Bones in his head. TS is often described as a living, and thriving, contradiction: a borderline anarchist who spent 13 years serving his country and government; a pacifist who owns and is quite proficient with firearms; an agnostic with a broad and fairly deep knowledge of and respect for world religions. It's not clear whether TS is naturally drawn to contradiction, or that contradiction seems to naturally find its way to him. But contradiction is a strong and common theme in his latest music. TS's music examines the darker aspects of contradiction in the world around us, personal and socio-political. His political commentaries are not necessarily an indictment of war, nor a celebration of war. They're part of his larger interest in human relationships -- a look at manifestations of human conflict, the things that lead to them, the propaganda on both sides, and the results. After years in the US Navy; after starting a family, suffering a painful break-up, and raising a son; after building a career in the San Francisco Bay Area; and now living in Boone, an eclectic artist enclave nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northwestern North Carolina, TS Leach has developed into a songwriter with a very unconventional perspective on the world, and on the deepest secrets of the human condition. The wildly divergent paths he has journeyed, his frequent and extensive travels and experiences internationally as a Navy officer and later in civilian life, have undeniably shaped him as an artist, as a songwriter, and as a human being. Influences: Lou Reed, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Warren Zevon, The Moody Blues, Patti Smith, Hunter Thompson, Jackson Browne, Traffic, Barclay James Harvest, Dr. John, The Neville Bros, Ramones, Talking Heads, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, Mana, Neil Young, Johnny Cash. TS Leach listeners: + Political independents. + Anyone who likes their music dark. + College students who are questioning. + Buffs of penetrating grooves, thoughtful arrangements. + Interested in various world views, foreign environments, apolitical reviews of experience. + Want to be forced to think about things. Not just spew the party line. It's OK to think. See more