And so it goes. A group of lifelong friends have made the decision to say goodbye. In this case it isn’t the end that just fades to black, but rather the birth of the fourth full-length offering by Maine band, The Ghost of Paul Revere. Goodbye is the most important musical statement this band has made, reflective of all their years together, yet indicative of their shared growth.

It's everything the band—Griffin Sherry [guitar, vocals], Max Davis [banjo, vocals], Sean McCarthy [bass, vocals], and Chuck Gagne [drums, vocals]—have been working towards all along.

It marks a profound moment where they’ve poured all of their experiences into one last body of work.

Recognizing the gravity of this undertaking, they didn’t hold back. The stories are as real and raw as ever. The instrumentation is rich and lively as ever. The songcraft is powerful, poignant, and poetic as ever.

“Thinking about it now, the experience of The Ghost Of Paul Revere has been beyond comprehension for me,” confesses Sean. “When we look around, we have to pinch ourselves that this has even happened in the first place. There have been so many fever dream moments. We could laugh about checking into a hotel with no power or being stuck on a boat in the middle of a storm on the ocean! We could cry about getting robbed. But then, there’s the Ryman or Red Rocks and every Ghostland. The most prevalent emotion is gratitude.”

“As a lifelong musician, I’ll never forget the opportunity the Ghost boys have given me,” agrees Chuck.

With Goodbye, The Ghost Of Paul Revere churned out another batch of songs that undoubtedly will last. They knew exactly what they were doing and how important it was to both the legacy of the band and the pledges they’d made to one another.

“It’s been a pretty long journey,” observes Griffin. “There have been equally as many heartbreaking and fulfilling memories. We’ve learned a lot of good lessons. The past 11 years have been pretty incredible, to say the least. It’s not lost on any of us. We did all of this with the sweat off our back, our blood, and our tears. We were able to build the band by creating what we wanted to create, writing what we wanted to write, and performing the way we wanted to perform. We have a brotherhood that will hopefully endure forever, even as it changes shape. Hopefully, the songs last too.”

In late 2020 after quarantining for most of the year, the musicians decamped to Sean’s family cabin in order to reunite and write. This 48-hour adventure brought them together and inspired further writing throughout 2021. By the time they hit the studio with co-producer and engineer Dan Cardinal, they had decided the overall direction and opted to primarily record live, trusting one another more than ever after all of this time and making Goodbye even more special in the moment. They were all on the same page.

Channeling their experiences, this undeniable energy underlines the first single “Letters From The War Of Love And Loss.” Delicate acoustic guitar entwine with a soulful vocal performance and a jazz-y piano solo. Still, their boisterous knack for a sing-a-long refrain takes the spotlight.

“It’s one of the more jovial tracks on the record,” Griffin goes on. “The phrase ‘Letters From The War Of Love And Loss’ had stuck with me for a long time. It’s a communal song that we hope the audience would want to join in and sing along with us. This is our party tune.”

On the other end of the spectrum, “Knuckle” rustles up airy guitar rife with western soundtrack-style tension as the beat simmers in the background beneath hypnotic harmonies.

“It’s an exploration of the idea you need an audience as an artist,” reveals Max. “A lot of my favorite painters revered solitude and the space within the studio. You’re creating the whole opus to escape from everybody, including yourself. It’s an opportunity to get out of your own way and channel something else.”

Then, there’s “In Deep.” Max’s deftly plucked banjo rings out through this dyed-in-the-wool love letter sent straight from the heart.

“It’s just a love song for my soon-to-be wife,” affirms Sean. “Through everybody’s combined hearts, it took on a different level of energy.”

“Vivid Dream” hinges on a head-nodding groove before a bluesy electric guitar lick kicks in, embracing the band’s rock ‘n’ roll inclinations wholeheartedly evocative of their commitment to pushing forward.

“It was a natural progression,” Griffin notes. “Why don’t we put an amp on the acoustic guitar and see what it sounds like? The record ebbs and flows between soft songs that are more akin to what we used to do and more rocking songs with pretty good grit to them.”

Echoing raw emotion, “At Least I Know It’s True” teems with longing and remorse in quaking vocal delivery uplifted by sparse acoustic guitar.

“The chorus could be a reflection of someone pacing around and waiting for another person to come home perhaps after an argument,” Griffin shares. “Eventually, the song quiets, and the person comes home.”

It’s been quite a journey for The Ghost Of Paul Revere. In 2011, they delivered a signature sound evocative of folk, bluegrass, rock, country, and Americana unlike anything else, which they perfected across various full-length LPs and EPs. Additionally, they canvased the country with The Avett Brothers, The Revivalists, Old Crow Medicine Show, Trampled By Turtles, Jamestown Revival, The Dead South, Railroad Earth, and The Infamous Stringdusters. Acclaimed by Billboard, Boston Globe, and The Boot, their “Ballad of the 20th Maine” even became the official State Ballad of Maine as designated by Governor Janet Mills. Meanwhile, they built Ghostland into a festival brand of its own, running eight years strong as of 2022.

Now at another crossroads of the journey, The Ghost Of Paul Revere closes the curtain with Goodbye.

“Goodbye is a very dynamic snapshot,” Sean leaves off. “In a lot of ways, it feels grown up to me, but we’re still the same musicians and people we’ve always been. So, I hope you resonate with it in your own right.”

“I hope listeners love the songs and want to keep listening to them for as long as they’ve got ears,” smiles Griffin. “I do think it is a good moment in time for us. I hope the whole body of work shows you the journey we’ve been on from where we started to how we got here. We took a lot of chances and integrated different types of music and instruments, but the core has been there since 2011. That core is we care about the songs, their quality, and singing on them with as much passion as possible. I hope Goodbye shows that a group of friends can go out in the world, sing those songs, and be rewarded for it. Maybe it inspires other people to take a chance and realize creating can be a really wonderful thing to do. It has been for us.”

Griffin Sherry // Guitar, Vocals

Max Davis // Banjo, Vocals

Sean McCarthy // Bass, Vocals

 Chuck Gagne // Drums, Vocals