Song by Zach Montana performed by Zach Montana and Aiden Jones for the 2025 NPR Tiny Desk Concert
Vocals-Zach Montana
Guitar-Zach Montana
Bass-Aiden "Jonesy" Jones
HI:) A little backstory, me and Jonesy are both from rural Arizona. Jonesy is from Cottonwood and myself from Cornville. Yes Cornville is real, I didn't just make that up..teeny tiny town as you can imagine. No corn though, ironically. Jonesy is a crucial piece of Zach Montana, learning and playing all the bass parts during our band's live shows.
This song is off my unreleased debut album titled "Sum of Parts" that I've recorded, written, produced, and mixed all the parts to in my bedroom over the last three years. "Son" was one of the first tracks written for the record, circa 2022, during an intense struggle with my physical and mental health that is still ongoing, but has made tremendous improvements! The inspiration came to me in a dream. I remember I was nude, standing in a thrashing thunderstorm. Shivering in my childhood backyard, a black metal fence enclosed me. Only now the yard was completely bare. It lacked the familiar trees and vegetation. My cold feet pressed into a smooth sea of gravel that stretched on through the fence without boundary. I was standing next to an empty concrete pool. I fell to my knees and wept in a cathartic release to the thought of my childhood self. I was grieving my young and able body. Mourning my optimistic and wonderous tenure, my purity. The love and respective grief I had for my inner child was akin to the love a parent would have for their child. I pictured little me as my own son, and I had lost him. When I woke up, I started work on this song. Now, in 2025 I’ve found him again, and god only knows how I missed him.
SHOUTOUT JONESY FOR SAVING MY LOST PICK AT 2:00