If you’ve seen the name Pit House, you might be wondering what it means, where it came from, or whether it’s a real band. That’s a fair question. Because in a sense, it isn’t real. But in another sense, it is.
The honest answer is that Pit House didn’t start as a band at all. It started as an idea inside my novel A River in the Ocean. Long before I ever released a song, I had already created the name as part of the story’s world. At the time, I didn’t even know I would eventually use the name for music. I just knew it meant something.
I’ve been writing stories since I was six years old. Writing has always been the way I process things, understand things, and sometimes survive things. Over the years, those stories piled up in notebooks, computer files, bar napkins, and half-finished ideas that never quite left me alone. Some of them became books. Some of them stayed private. Some of them just waited.
Music was always there too, but in a different way. I always had lyrics in my head, lines that felt like they belonged somewhere, emotions that felt like they had rhythm. I just didn’t have the traditional path available to bring those songs to life. I reached out to musicians over time, hoping to collaborate, but nothing ever really came together in a way that moved the songs forward.
Eventually, I realized something simple. If I waited for the perfect situation, the songs might never exist outside my own head. That didn’t sit right with me. The stories have always been real to me. The emotions behind them are real. The experiences that shaped them are real. So I decided to use the tools available to me to finally bring the songs into the world. That’s where Pit House comes in.
Pit House became the name I could use as a creative umbrella for the music. It connects the songs back to the storytelling roots they came from, while also allowing the project to exist honestly as what it is: an evolving body of work created from years of writing and reflection.
Nothing about Pit House is meant to mislead anyone. I’m not pretending to be something I’m not. I’m not claiming a traditional band structure or trying to present the project as something other than what it is. I’m simply using the name as a way to release music that otherwise might never have been heard.
The reality is that creative work doesn’t always follow a straight line. Sometimes books lead to songs. Sometimes songs lead back to stories. Sometimes the tools change, but the voice behind the work stays the same.
For me, Pit House represents that connection. It represents years of writing finally finding another form. It represents stories turning into songs. It represents ideas that refused to stay silent.
One of the first songs released under the Pit House name is “Little Feet in the Sand.” That song, like many others, grew out of themes that have appeared throughout my writing for years. Memory. Family. Time. Loss. Hope. The things we hold onto and the things we have to let go.
I have more songs ready to release, and they don’t all sound the same. Some lean toward pop. Some lean toward acoustic. Some carry a reggae influence. Some feel more like country storytelling. That variety isn’t accidental. Different emotions carry different sounds. I’ve never experienced life as one consistent tone, so the music doesn’t try to pretend otherwise.
Pit House gives those songs a place to live together without forcing them into a single category. This is not about chasing trends or trying to manufacture something artificial. If anything, the goal is the opposite. The goal is to let the material exist honestly, without waiting for perfect conditions that may never come.
I’ve learned that sometimes the only way to move forward creatively is to use what’s available and keep going. The books came first. Now the songs are arriving. And the truth is, they were always connected. Pit House is simply the name that allows that connection to be visible. If anything, I hope the music speaks for itself.
