Raised in the Northeast in a healthy diet of Jimmy Webb and the Rolling Stones, Kip Boardman's migration west firmly implanted him in both the figurative and literal soundscape of the Los Angeles music scene. After leaving the session world behind to create his own troubadour storyline, "Hello, I Must Be..." finds him taking US deep into the California wasteland to re-emerge with sophisticated and stirring tales put to a warm, velvety soundtrack courtesy of the production of R. Walt Vincent (Pete Yorn, Robert Pollard) as well as some of the local greats- Tony Gilkyson (X, Lone Justice), Don Heffington (Lucinda Williams, Bob Dylan) and Josh Grange (Eleni Mandell, Dwight Yoakam). You'll also spot national treasures like Arturo Gerst lending his Guatemalen harp skills and Van Dyke Parks contributing a wild, three ring circus accompaniment for "Spin Me Around." "Kip Boardman's piano-oriented pop ballads brings to mind Harry Nillson without the jagged edge, early Elton John with normal glasses". (No Depression Magazine)
1) Hello I Must Be
2) What Are Clouds?
3) Losing Streak
4) Good Place to Hide
5) Dirty Work
6) Life Would Leave Us
7) Spin Me Around
8) Socks Have Holes
9) The Wheel
10) Truth and the Idiot