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After quitting his soul-sucking job to play music around the U.S. while living in an old postal van, troubled singer and guitarist Kody Logan gets the opportunity of a lifetime: a recording session in Nashville with a legendary producer. Seeing this as his sole chance to escape an endless cycle of dive-bar gigs, hollow hookups, and self-loathing, Kody puts every penny he has on the line to make it happen.
En route to Music City, he joins forces with Dane, a charismatic violinist whose effortless talent, life-affirming outlook, and magnetic presence soon stir a crippling mixture of jealousy and resentment in the misanthropic songwriter. As Kody's bitterness toward Dane swells to a breaking point, the stage suddenly seems too small for both musicians.
“A lyrical, live-in journey that slams the reader in the back of the tour bus, hollers at 'em to carry the amp, and makes no apologies for THE behind the curtain tour. This dip into musical madness is a wild ride.” - Ashley Erwin, author of Grit Black Blood
“Alex Rasmussen delivers a raw and lyrical tale of desperate men and women. Part Nashville, part Easy Rider, In This Void is exhilarating honky-tonk noir.” - Sam Wiebe, award-winning author of The Last Exile
Inside out is a collection of poems by Seattle-raised writer and musician Alex Rasmussen. Composed over the course of several years spent performing across the US, the poems explore topics from love to loneliness, eccentric painters to hollow consumers. Each work is a piece of a puzzle which, once assembled, shows in vivid detail a life shaped by the journey from turbulent childhood to nomadic artist.
26-year-old singer-songwriter Jason Mayes is a street performer who takes every moment as it comes. Living in his Nissan Maxima—sleeping on couches and kitchen floors—he’s content showing up on the sidewalks of Seattle’s Pike Place Market and opening his guitar case, singing for enough cash to buy his next meal . . . and a few victory beers. During a rowdy outing with some out-of-town songwriters, Jason meets Kendra, an intelligent and enigmatic girl from San Francisco. She and Jason share a steamy night before she flies back home, and the two maintain contact over the coming weeks via phone calls and the ancient art of writing letters. When a combination of serendipitous circumstances align, culminating in a spontaneous road trip with a cast of colorful characters, Jason tags along for a week in the fabled city by the bay, where he dives into the music scene, explores new busking spots, and reconnects with Kendra, who's well worth the 800-mile journey.