The new record is called Love Is Hard and brings a grown-up perspective of love from just about every angle — marriage, family, losing a close friend, this divided world and on and on.

With the help of the Fourteens, Steve drives further down the Pop-Americana road with the R&B and country styles that he featured on his Mind Your Step record. Smart, hook-heavy lyrics backed by a powerful and soulful band – horns, guitars, pedal steel and rich vocal harmonies.

The Fourteens are Roger Brainard (guitars), Mary Gill (vocals), Mark Sobus (bass), Geoff Gill (drums), Mark van Allen (pedal steel). The record also features Lee Davis’ incredible piano and organ tracks. The Funk Cake Horns (Alex Rodiek, Ben Davis and Wes Funderburk). Smith Curry and Rich Herring throwing in some Nashville on The One Percent. And Barry Best, who wrote I Believe in You as well as the badass horn arrangement for And You Want War.

Produced by Steve Baskin and Rich Herring. Recorded by Lee Davis at Lee Davis Studios and by Steve Baskin at his Underground Studio. Mastered for digital by Alex McCullough at True East Mastering in Nashville.