“How Could I Be So Stupid” is a mid-to-up-tempo Americana track built around the moment of emotional clarity after heartbreak — when denial fades and accountability takes its place.
It’s a song about looking back without excuses. About realizing your own mistakes while life continues moving forward, whether you’re ready or not.
Driven by storytelling and raw honesty, it balances regret with motion — capturing how even painful truth still pushes you ahead.
Written by: Jon Raven Visser &
Daniel Kleindienst (Banner Music Nashville)
Recorded at: Monty Powell’s The Court Studio (Nashville, TN)
Tracking Engineer: Cheyenne Medders
Overdubs & Post Producton:Ravenmedia (Nova Scotia)
Mixed & Mastered by: Anthony Edwinds (Boston, MA)
Musicians:
Ric Latina – Electric Guitar (Waylon/Hank III/John Berry, etc)
George Hawkins Jr. – Bass (Kenny Loggins/John Fogerty/Stevie Nicks, etc)
Steve Bowman – Drums (Counting Crows/Third Eye Blind)
Shannon Wickline – B3 Organ (Charlie Daniels Band, etc)
Mike Crouch – Percussion
Background Vocals: Etta Britt / Sheila Lawrence
“Love Hurricane” captures the chaos of a love you know will break you—but you run straight into it anyway.
Dark, emotional, and sonically explosive, the track builds from tension into a powerful release, reflecting the push and pull between passion and destruction.
Written by: Jon Raven
Recorded at: Monty Powell’s The Court Studio (Nashville, TN)
Tracking Engineer: Cheyenne Medders
Overdubs & Post Producton:Ravenmedia (Nova Scotia)
Mixed & Mastered by: Anthony Edwinds (Boston, MA)
Musicians:
Ric Latina – Electric Guitar (Waylon/Hank III/John Berry, etc)
George Hawkins Jr. – Bass (Kenny Loggins/John Fogerty/Stevie Nicks, etc)
Steve Bowman – Drums (Counting Crows/Third Eye Blind)
Shannon Wickline – B3 Organ (Charlie Daniels Band, etc)
Mike Crouch – Percussion
Being from the east coast ofCanada, this song is about being a castaway of sorts, living vicariously through other people’s adventures and stories. Sometimes as a musician it is hard to leave a place once you have set things in motion out of fear of missing your shot. It’s like your trapped on an island alone. So tell me a story!
Jon wrote this song with guitarist Ben Flanders (Scott Stapp/Creed).Drummer Dango Empire (Scott Stapp/Creed) joined in on drums for the recording.
Tracks were recorded in The United States and Canada. Michael Estok of Court Street Studios, Ohio
Jon Raven at Ravenmedia, Nova Scotia
Michael Flanders, Nashville TN
It’s about Jon nursing his father through his battle and passing with cancer and needing to get the story and pain out. When the world comes crashing down… the happy ever disaster