Some things you
build slow.

Jake Carver is 29, a carpenter from a small town in the American South. He grew up in his father's workshop, where he learned that the things that last are made slowly, and by hand.

He writes his songs the same way: on the job, in his head, with fresh sawdust in the air.

The love of his life left for the city and a better life. He stayed, with a half-finished porch swing he'd been building for her. That's where the first songs came from.

He's no star. He's a quiet, steady man with a dry sense of humor who says out loud what most people keep to themselves. Loyal to the end, he never says a bad word about her. He believes in second chances, and Sundays are for family.