Portland folk singer Jeffrey Martin releases one full show, Alive July 25, 2025, recorded at Portland’s The Showdown, with 16 tracks, unedited, overdub-free, and unsequenced. Sam Weber (Madison Cunningham, Anna Tivel, Bahamas) joins Martin on acoustic and electric guitars. Weber also recorded and mixed the record. Only five of these songs appeared on his acclaimed 2023 Thank God We Left the Garden. The others are selected from his sixteen-year recording career, along with a cover of Neil Young’s “Out on the Weekend,” along with a new song, ‘1519.”
Martin opens with “I Know What I Know,” in one sense an anthem of the well-informed, as Martin articulately points out that hate survives on a lack of information; it can’t function without it.