Jeffrey Silverstein – Coming Back Around
Jeffrey Silverstein is a Portland, Oregon songwriter who also works as a special education teacher, journalist, and vinyl DJ around the Pacific Northwest. “Coming Back Around” marks his signing to London’s Full Time Hobby and his first new music since the 2024 EP Roseway. He sits somewhere between loner-folk, cosmic country, and what the press notes call kraut-laden choogle, and the description mostly holds up.
The song came from an unusual place for Silverstein: he had the story before the music. Someone, for reasons unclear, has to move back to their hometown. Not a choice, just a necessity. There’s comfort in it (“the door is always open and the beer is always cold”) but nothing quite fits. They make their peace and move on. “I suppose you could say it’s about things coming full circle”, he says. The track draws from Steve Miller Band’s “Circle of Love” for its second half, two movements folded into one: the moving home, then the moving on.
Recorded at Portland’s Center for Sound, Light and Color Therapy with producer Ryan Oxford (Y La Bamba, Rose City Band), the session brought in bassist Alex Chapman, drummer Dana Buoy (Akron/Family), and Rock Pedrosa on pedal-steel and electric guitar. Mastered by Amy Dragon (Big Thief, Nathaniel Rateliff, Moon Duo), with artwork and visuals by Eric Loeffler. I keep landing on the pedal-steel in the second half: it’s where the song stops explaining itself and just floats. Silverstein heads to the UK and Sweden this summer for co-headline dates with Bobby Lee.
Coming Back Around is out now on Full Time Hobby.
