Justin Kauflin - Coming Home (2018)

The album is 13 tracks that resonate emotions and transport the listener across space and time. The lead single Coming Home "serves as an invitation to join me as I share how I experience the world around me through colors and vibrant ever-shifting textures and shapes. Alan Parker's acoustic guitar inserts that down home feeling from my home in Virginia." Another standout is "Lost." Kauflin mentions, "As exciting as traveling the world has been, there have certainly been times where I've felt disconnected and out of my element. This is not just a feeling that is connected to where I am physically. This also delves into how I feel emotionally at times. Life itself can leave one feeling quite lost."

The album also includes an ode to his time spent living in Brooklyn with the cover of "John My Beloved." An impromptu on the spot session with Derrick Hodge created " Something Somethin." A tribute to Kauflin's favorite food, fried chicken, most famously found in his home state on the track, "Country Fried." "Pendulum" is about New York, and the feeling that at times it is the greatest place on earth and at others, overwhelming. And "Strawberry Fields" as solo and band-accompanied tracks, Kauflin comments "I've always found the idea of an imaginary place where one can find refuge to be incredibly attractive. It is such a perfect marriage of harmony and melody and it conjures up this barely out of reach sensation, as if the place for which I'm looking is just around the corner." He continues, "When I know what I'm really looking for is actually inside."