the story of "Big Mistakes"

It's FriYAY! because "Big Mistakes" is officially out in the world and in our ears.

According to today's press release for the song...

Trevor comments: “‘Big Mistakes’ the first single on the album, is essentially about surviving my late teens/twenties, hence the lyric: ‘We played in the fire, we danced in the rain. Up all night we made Big Mistakes.’  I should have called the song ‘I Can’t Believe I’m Alive.'” Trevor plays all the instruments on the track, aside from the drums which were performed by Lou Molino III, and backing vocals from Dante Marchi & Liz Constantine.

As long-time fans are aware, Trevor has been working with Dante and Liz for over a decade on various projects, and Liz is now a two-time collaborator on Trevor's solo work.  And of course it wouldn't be a Trevor solo track without Lou!

Here are some further release details for the album:

Rio will be available as a Ltd CD+Blu-ray Mediabook, Ltd Deluxe Gatefold Red 180g 2LP + Blu-ray (including 8-page LP-booklet and obi strip), both featuring bonus material, 5.1 surround sound & liner notes. Also available as Standard CD Jewelcase, Gatefold 180g
2LP+LP-booklet (with etching on side D), and as Digital Album.

And here is the full tracklisting:

1. Big Mistakes
2. Push
3. Oklahoma
4. Paradise
5. Thandi
6. Goodbye
7. Tumbleweed
8. These Tears
9. Egoli
10. Toxic

The Ltd CD+Blu-ray Mediabook and Ltd Deluxe Gatefold Red 180g 2LP + Blue-ray also features the following bonus tracks:
1. Spek & Polly
2. Fragile (Demo)
3. Georgia

It's wonderful that we will finally be able to hear a professionally-mastered version of "Fragile" and "Georgia" is, I believe, Trevor's version of "Georgia on My Mind" that he originally shared with fans back in September 2014.  The album features drumming assistance once again from Lou and Ryan and Vinnie Colaiuta on "Push," as well as Trevor himself on a few tracks.

The cover of Rio features one of Trevor's forays into digital artwork, which is what I suspected it might be.

“I dabble with digital art so I sent some images of mine to the label and was pleasantly surprised when they liked them.”

And as with all of Trevor's music, Rio promises to showcase a lot of stylistic diversity:

Stylistically, Rio is tough to categorize. Besides guitar-driven rock-meets-pop, "Goodbye" is Country & Western with an edgy drive, while "Tumbleweed" begins in a burst of harmonies. No wonder its working title was The Demographic Nightmare.

“I wanted to get into many different areas,” Rabin states. “Of course there are ‘prog things,’ but overall there are a lot of styles going on.”