For The Ride Home -- the moving major label debut of singer-songwriter Josh Kelley -- has the homespun intimacy and freewheeling grace of a prized road trip tape. Intimate and openhearted, the album promises to be the starting point on a far longer journey for this twenty-two year old from Augusta, Georgia. Produced with subtle sensitivity by John Alagia -- well regarded for his work with Dave Matthews Band, among others -- For The Ride Home is a warm and revealing introduction to a young artist who sounds as though he's here for the long run.

An art major and golf star at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, Kelley came up with the title for his major label debut while in the dorms. “There would be some break coming up and everybody would be burning CDs -- random mixes of things,” recalls the lanky twenty-two-year-old. “They'd all say `I'm burning something for the ride home.' With this CD