A long time ago, looking for a different kind of life, Michael left the east coast for New Mexico.  For years, he played in a punkabilly and blues band in Albuquerque, singing, playing guitar, writing songs, and recording. Then he more or less put his guitar down and stopped singing for the next 30 years, until the late summer of 2023 when, for reasons he can’t explain, songs started turning up in his sleep and eventually at all hours of the day and night.  Long Way from Paradise contains fourteen of those songs.