“The loudest voices on the biggest platforms don't sound like the voices I hear playing pool at the dive bar or at the diner or coffee shops or at the shows when we're on tour,” says New Orleans-based singer-songwriter Andrew Duhon, a man who’s spent most of his adult life observing, internalizing, and in his own way, documenting American life from sea to shining sea.

It was Leo Tolstoy who said “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town,” and in the case of Andrew Duhon and his latest album Emerald Blue, released today via Vere, both instances are true.

“The more I love, the less I trust in money / The more I get to know the soul of my fellow man,” sings New Orleans’s prodigal Americana son Andrew Duhon in the opening song of his new album Emerald Blue. Empowered by a wealth of songs crafted and collected throughout the great shutdown and inspired by adventures well-beyond his home in Orleans Parish, Duhon put his poetry in motion and nailed down eleven tunes representative of his view of the world in its current state; politically, socially, and personally.