I interviewed Chris Blevins in late 2019 about the exciting plans he had for the upcoming year, including three record releases and a new baby. His son was born last May but the records never came out because 2020 turned the other plans sideways. 2021 is finally offering a reset to the year that was put on hold.

The duet project that Chris had called Grief back then is now titled Grief, Love and Other Gifts, and is being released on Tulsa’s Horton Records. “This started out as a very single-minded project and quickly became something else entirely,” Blevins explains. "We changed the title because albums, when they have a specific intention, I think they’re a bit amorphous in what the expectation of the creator is and as we added songs and subtracted some songs that were maybe not as strong it just became a different thing and it no longer fit that paradigm and we shifted more and I changed the title as a result of that.” He added, “The tone of some of the songs initially was grief and very much centered around the prospect of grief and how we process that and now it’s more in line with just human experience and the different facets of that and how we process those.”