EXCLUSIVE: Jesse Daniel Premieres 'One's Too Many (And a Thousand Ain't Enough)' from New Album Son of the San Lorenzo

On Jesse Daniel's fifth album, Son of the San Lorenzo, it feels almost like he's opening up the big red book on an episode of This Is Your Life, as one by one the characters and moments that have shaped his life are introduced to us, each with their own story to tell; an anecdote or a memory that gives shape to the man standing before us.

It's a deeply personal, richly rewarding record steeped in the sounds of California country rock, with strands of The Byrds and the Eagles and the Flying Burrito Brothers all pulled together by his well-worn, wise and philosophical country storytelling.

"Everyone's got their own story to sell," he sings on the sublime title track. "There's truth and there's lies / but it gets hard to tell which one is which in the big magazines, in the stories they feed us from our glowing screens."

"Trouble found me like the hair on my chin," he sings, confronting the demons that afflicted him and the addictions that began in his teenage years. "Each time I'd get clean it'd just grow back again / I got strung out and locked up but I made out alive, did a life worth of living in a short block of time."

Born and raised in Ben Lomond, CA, Daniel got his start playing guitar and drums in a variety of local bands, but trouble found him early. By the age of 12, he was already drinking, and by the time he hit 18, he was addicted to heroin and crystal meth. He bounced in and out of jail and rehab for several years with little hope for recovery until he began devoting himself to music and fell in love with his now-fiancé, Jodi Lyford.

"I can't say I'd like to go through it again, but I put down the spoon and I picked up the pen," he sings towards the end of 'Son of the San Lorenzo.' "Now I travel and sing with the love of my life, proud to say I made that decision right."

“I’d already overdosed a couple of times, and I realized I was at a fork in the road,” Daniel recalls. “I could find a way to get clean and hold on to these things I cared about so deeply, or I could let it all go and continue down the path I was on until it killed me. I chose love and music, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.”

Ahead of the album's release on 6 June, Holler is excited to give you all an early listen to another of the album's many standout tracks. 'One's Too Many (And a Thousand Ain't Enough)' is another of the songs on the album that touches on his addictions and the hard lessons he's had to learn from them.

“‘One’s Too Many’ is written from the perspective of someone who has been through the ringer of addiction and has come out the other side with a hard-earned wisdom," Jesse Daniel shared. "This person is sharing their experience with someone who is still in its grips, offering a hand out of the suffering. It covers a lot of the elements of recovery and reveals the pitfalls that await us should we choose the dark side instead.”

Listen to 'One's Too Many (And a Thousand Ain't Enough)' exclusively on Holler below.

Recorded live to tape at The Bomb Shelter in Nashville with his touring band (and a little help from some special guests including harmonica legend Charlie McCoy, Lynyrd Skynyrd keyboardist Peter Keys, and Steel Drivers banjo player Richard Bailey), Son of the San Lorenzo offers up a candid account of Daniel’s remarkable journey, from his early years hitchhiking in the shadow of the Santa Cruz Mountains to his tumultuous adolescence and battles with addiction to the people and music that ultimately saved his life.

The album includes previous singles 'My Time is Gonna Come,' 'Mountain Home' and the Charles Wesley Godwin collaboration 'Time Well Spent for a Man.'

Son of the San Lorenzo is released on 6 June via Lightning Rod Records Marketed and Distributed by Thirty Tigers