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title: Ranch Life — Album Songs
type: LP
releasedAt: 2026-05-01
coverArt: /audio/albums/ranch-life/folder.webp
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filtered: false
blurb: |-
  An album about life as a Highlands Ranch dad. Streets, landmarks, businesses, and views — no kids by name, just the universal stuff every dad in the 80129 lives every week. Every track names at least three real places. Sonic identity: suburban-dad hip-hop with a country/Americana edge on the slower tracks (Pond Days, Tee Time, Front Range) and big anthem energy on the gut-punchers (Big Orange, Main Event, HOA Letter).
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tracks:
  - num: 1
    title: Cruise The Ranch
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/cruise-the-ranch.mp3
    duration: 258
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/folder.webp
    date: 2026-05-01
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      Opener and album-identity track. Saturday drive through Highlands Ranch in the Lexus, double shot of espresso, Front Range in the windshield. Town Center, Broadway, Target drive-up, Backcountry, Daniels Park, Civic Green — establishes the geography of the whole record. *Posse on Broadway* homage.
    lyricsFile: ranch-life/cruise-the-ranch.md
  - num: 2
    title: Big Orange
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/big-orange.mp3
    duration: 272
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/folder.webp
    date: 2026-05-01
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      Seasonal pilgrimage to the Home Depot on Highlands Ranch Parkway. August: 12-foot skeleton on the warehouse rack. November: 8-foot Santa, color-changing icicles, fresh wreath roped to the SUV. Hot dog from the cart out front is the reward. Every dad on the block one-upping the next.
    lyricsFile: ranch-life/big-orange.md
  - num: 3
    title: Carpool Line
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/carpool-line.mp3
    duration: 123
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/folder.webp
    date: 2026-05-01
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      Banjo-anchored carpool comedy. Queue rules, the F-150 line-cutter villain, the number-sign windshield as the dad badge. School bell chime before the last verse. Truck-cab loud.
    lyricsFile: ranch-life/carpool-line.md
  - num: 4
    title: Drive Up
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/drive-up.mp3
    duration: 266
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/folder.webp
    date: 2026-05-01
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      The Target / King Soopers drive-up pickup ritual. Order placed Thursday night from the couch, scheduled for Saturday 10am, pull into spot four, hatchback up, never even unbuckle. Fuel points stacking up. Smooth pocket groove, satisfied-Saturday energy.
    lyricsFile: ranch-life/drive-up.md
  - num: 5
    title: First Watch Sunday
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/first-watch-sunday.mp3
    duration: 292
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/folder.webp
    date: 2026-05-01
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      Sunday family breakfast pilgrimage on Highlands Ranch Parkway. Power bowl, chickichanga for the table, pour-over coffee with the side carafe, 25-minute wait outside with the fleece-vest dads. The reset before the work week. Mellow Sunday-morning hip-hop, jazzy chords, brushed snare.
    lyricsFile: ranch-life/first-watch-sunday.md
  - num: 6
    title: Front Range
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/front-range.mp3
    duration: 273
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/folder.webp
    date: 2026-05-01
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      The reflective closing track. Sunset on the back deck after a long Saturday, mountains turning pink, fire pit going, drink in hand. Pulls together every place named earlier in the album. *Twenty miles south of Denver, but a world of its own.* The thesis of the record.
    lyricsFile: ranch-life/front-range.md
  - num: 7
    title: Hoa Letter
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/hoa-letter.mp3
    duration: 255
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/folder.webp
    date: 2026-05-01
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      The dreaded violation notice in the mailbox. Trash can left out one day too long, trampoline visible from the street, garage door open past 9pm. Mock outrage, the resigned *"fine, I'll move it"*, the secret pride that the neighborhood looks good because of letters like this. Comedic narrative hip-hop.
    lyricsFile: ranch-life/hoa-letter.md
  - num: 8
    title: Main Event
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/main-event.mp3
    duration: 216
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/folder.webp
    date: 2026-05-01
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      Family night at Main Event off Lincoln Avenue. Bowling lanes, two-story arcade, laser tag, gravity ropes course up top. $20 game cards gone in 11 minutes. Dad in the lane with the bumpers up. Tickets dumped into the prize counter for a 47-cent eraser.
    lyricsFile: ranch-life/main-event.md
  - num: 9
    title: Pond Days
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/pond-days.mp3
    duration: 259
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/folder.webp
    date: 2026-05-01
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      The slow-tempo dad-meditation song of the album. Catch-and-release at Northridge, Westridge, or the Toepfer Park pond. Folding chair, tackle box, Stanley full of coffee, geese on the bank, mountain reflection in the water. Phones in the truck. Closest thing on the record to a pure country song.
    lyricsFile: ranch-life/pond-days.md
  - num: 10
    title: Project Mode
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/project-mode.mp3
    duration: 253
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/folder.webp
    date: 2026-05-01
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      The "I'll just fix the cabinet hinge" project that turns into three Home Depot trips in one Saturday. YouTube tutorial paused on the iPad, Pro-desk loyalty discount, dad sweat equity. Funky workshop groove with power-tool percussion.
    lyricsFile: ranch-life/project-mode.md
  - num: 11
    title: Snow Days
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/snow-days.mp3
    duration: 170
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/folder.webp
    date: 2026-05-01
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      Snow-globe Saturday. 5 AM email shutting school down, snowblower in the cul-de-sac at dawn, cocoa at the counter, Toepfer sled hill by noon, the slow melt at one o'clock. Quiet pride, never frantic. Companion piece in tone to *Rec Center Saturday*.
    lyricsFile: ranch-life/snow-days.md
  - num: 12
    title: Tee Time
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/tee-time.mp3
    duration: 268
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/folder.webp
    date: 2026-05-01
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      6:30 AM tee time at The Links at Highlands Ranch. Frost on the cart, breakfast burrito from King Soopers, four-man scramble with the neighborhood crew, mountain views from the back nine. 19th hole at the clubhouse afterward. Fairway-flex hip-hop with a country-rap crossover edge.
    lyricsFile: ranch-life/tee-time.md
  - num: 13
    title: Torchys Tuesday
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/torchys-tuesday.mp3
    duration: 292
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/folder.webp
    date: 2026-05-01
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      The family dinner-out rotation. Torchy's Tacos on the way home from practice, Old Chicago for deep dish and the Tour of Italy beer card, Old Blinking Light for the patio. Each spot gets a verse, the dad order at each. Mariachi horns, congas, summer-patio energy.
    lyricsFile: ranch-life/torchys-tuesday.md
  - num: 14
    title: Twelve Foot Skeleton
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/twelve-foot-skeleton.mp3
    duration: 186
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/folder.webp
    date: 2026-05-01
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      Big Halloween anthem. The neighbor put his up early, the ladder install, the October frost on the bones in the lawn, the trick-or-treat wave from the porch. The yard as the dad's red carpet. Stadium-rap energy, marching-band snare, brass on the hook.
    lyricsFile: ranch-life/twelve-foot-skeleton.md
  - num: 15
    title: Yard Game
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/yard-game.mp3
    duration: 256
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/folder.webp
    date: 2026-05-01
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      Saturday morning yard ritual. Home Depot for mulch, weed & feed, a new sprinkler head, the bag of grass seed for the bare patch every spring. Mower out, edger out, leaf blower waking the neighbor. HOA-approved lawn flex, mountain view across the open space.
    lyricsFile: ranch-life/yard-game.md
  - num: 16
    title: Cruise The Ranch Remix
    audioUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/cruise-the-ranch-remix.mp3
    duration: 262
    imageUrl: /audio/albums/ranch-life/folder.webp
    date: 2026-05-01
    featured: false
    notes: |-
      Companion to the opener. Same map, different ride — alternate production on the album-identity track.
    lyricsFile: ranch-life/cruise-the-ranch.md
---