Rich "Chard" Maston has been making music with various projects in New York, Ohio, Arizona, and most recently Chicagoland for 20 years. Chard is a multi-instrumentalist who is now leaning on seasoned players from the desert to lay down a sonic background to songs he's written over the last 10 years, paying tribute to Gram Parsons, the Jayhawks and others. From roots to rock, from Americana to Amoricana, there's plenty of front porch melodies and instrumentation to go around.