Jeff Troutman

Outdoorsy types may note the fly fishing association in the band’s name and wonder if the guy singing changed his name somewhere along the line. “Troutman” is in fact the family name Jeff was born with on the Texas Gulf coast, and the band’s name honors the Leonard Halliday mayfly imitation popularized by Charles Adams nearly a century ago on the Boardman River, near Traverse City.

Troutman also is the host of the popular national fly fishing podcast Remote. No Pressure., now in its fourth season.

As the middle school dream of a future career with his beloved Houston Astros quickly faded, the largely homebound Troutman picked up a guitar. Later, he would earn a degree in music ministry and go on to lead the music ministry at a mega-church, releasing two albums of contemporary Christian music.

“Heaven” charts his journey away from the certainty of organized religion to a more tangible faith in the natural world.

The songs on “Heaven” are, by and large, songs for grownups; tackling the sorts of issues men (and women) of a certain age are prone to pondering.