I made no snake in the tree during the first year of the pandemic in 2020. It is my first self-produced album. I moved back to Gippsland from Nashville in 2018 and went into a period of solitude. In 2019, by chance at a bush doof in the mountains near home, I met my now wife Mim. All the songs relate to that time in my life in some way. "We got a second shot at eden, with no snake in the tree." Easter egg: the broadcaster at the beginning of some shit don’t burn is Mim herself. She works for abc radio gippsland and was broadcasting the day that Mallacoota was encircled by flames during the horrific black summer of 2019/2020.    Liner Notes for no snake in the tree it was 3 years ago I found myself at a crossroad  I had a decision to make  which road would I take? the label had decided to shelve my second album no commercial viability, 'that's a hard sell man' the stars that aligned for me once had long since dispersed I was poison, I was nothing, I was broken, I was cursed  I was down in the dumps and my choices were plain I could keep nipping at their heels  and keep playing their game but I’d wind up sounding  much like much of the same ​ or I could cut myself loose return to amateurity  break out of their eden and set myself free in obscurity but that freedom was a wilderness immune not to despair I found out I was nothing if there was no one else there so I wrote and I played and I scratched and I saved and I took it all the way  for 3 long years I kept myself awake looking for my purpose in pursuit of the chase one moment I would have it  and there are scratches there are errors and it’s blemished to the core but from the heart to the eye better a broken truth than a pristine lie