Plain & True — An Acoustic Session
▶ Expected 1 November 2026
Ten songs and an intro. Two acoustic guitars — Jo Hennessy and Will Starks — and Big D's voice. Nothing else. The songs as they were before anything was added.
Ten songs and an intro. Two acoustic guitars — Jo Hennessy and Will Starks — and Big D's voice. Nothing else. The songs as they were before anything was added.
Plain & True is not a greatest hits album. It is a different way into the same songs. The full band productions of these songs are what they are — complete, considered, right. But stripping everything back to two acoustic guitars and a voice reveals something the productions necessarily covered.
Jo Hennessy plays with a Celtic fingerpicking style that pulls the music somewhere unexpected. Will Starks plays slightly behind the beat in a way that makes everything feel more deliberate than it is. Jo plays at the front of the beat. The space between them is where this album lives.
They had never played with Big D before the first rehearsal. That unfamiliarity is in the recording. It is exactly right.
Track Listing
Big D introduces Jo and Will. Fifty-eight seconds. Two guitars, then nothing.
A love song of the quietest kind — about ordinary presence being enough.
Insomnia. The two-guitar arrangement makes it feel later than three o'clock.
The acoustic version finds something in this song the full band production kept just out of reach.
The third version of this song. Band only, acoustic. The simplest arrangement and perhaps the clearest.
The long band introduction becomes two guitars setting a scene. It still works.
The absence in this song is louder acoustically.
Already the most acoustic song in the catalogue. Two guitars make it more so.
A song about what is not said, played as quietly as possible.
About holding your ground. The acoustic arrangement holds its ground differently.
The perfect closer. Always has been.