[Cover photo credit to Julian Lambert]

For the past thirty-five years, musician, writer, and painter Trever M. Keith has travelled the country, playing his music and gathering stories and inspiration. But it’s relatively recently that the California-born and bred Keith has settled into his adopted home of middle Tennessee. That has led to the greater impact of the genre of Country music.

On July 10th, 2026, Keith is releasing an eleven-song collection of Americana and Country songs titled We Drank From A Poisoned Well, which returns to his roots. The title track and video are out now.

Keith says:

My reconnection and discovery of this music has inspired what I think is a true-to-form classic country record that takes me back to a simpler time in life.

Growing up in the 1970s, Keith found Country music around every corner of his childhood, from film and television programs to pop radio. Spending the past fifteen years living in Nashville, Tennessee, and absorbing all of the music of Music City helped him reconnect to the Country music on which he grew up, but also led to the discovery of more music from that time period like Faron Young, Connie Smith, Jim Reeves, and Lefty Frizzell, as well as many others.

The title track portrays “a dysfunctional romance in which the narrator feels cheated, lied to, and weary from years of a one-sided pursuit.”

On the album, themes of “current-day American strife permeate, namely, the demands everyone puts on the idea of what this country should be.”

Keith says:

We all want something from it, and many times, the idea of what we think it should be doesn’t live up to our expectations. In the end, it’s not about division or blame. It’s a recognition that, for all the noise and fractures, Americans share more than they differ—everyone has been sipping from the same tainted source, carrying the same quiet disillusionment. We’re all in it together, and we share the frustration.