Rev Ezra

Hi, I’m Josh, I live in Ithaca, NY, and I started the project "Rev Ezra." I had my first release as a solo artists back in 2022, but since early 2024 have been writing and collaborating with my friend and fiddler, Sam Schmidt. We've just released our first album as a duo in December, 2024. We titled it "Generations" because of the common themes of understanding yourself in the context of your past and future, and how interconnected you are with people that came before you that you've never met, and future generations that you'll never meet.

The sound of this album is stripped back. We recorded all of the songs with one microphone in single takes at Electric Wilburland Studios. We used no click tracks, no pitch correction, and no overdubs. We wanted these songs to sound exactly as we would playing them at an intimate venue, or in someone's home.

Some more lyrical themes of the album are focused on growing as a person while helping and supporting the people you care about, being true to yourself and others, the important relationships you develop as you move through life, and life's delicate balance between adventure and responsibility, to name a few. My goal as a songwriter has always been to tell honest stories, and to put all the common yet hard-to-grasp emotions into words, with the hope that folks can relate.

In everything I do, I want to be genuine, and these songs are no exception. I hope you enjoy them, and if our paths cross, I’ll be happy to play them for you.