Isaac Penrod is a hidden gem we found online from music forums. He started writing music in the late 90s and initially released under the band name Crimson.

Music making took the back seat while Isaac focused on raising a family, but from 2018 music has been being released again!

Never Should Have Gone is our favourite of his 2018 EP ‘The First Collection’ recorded and mastered by Ryan Brubaker of Happy Recording Studio in Avon. It’s a stripped back acoustic singer-songwriter track which takes us into an internal dialogue of Isaac figuring out that he doesn’t know what he needs, and that when he thinks he has it figured it out, he realises he has so much to learn. The chorus has a catchy hook and silky smooth high vocals.

We’d love to hear this track fleshed out with a band! Anyone fancy putting together a cover?

Listen in to more of Isaac Penrod here on Spotify, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram. And make sure not to miss him at Books & Brews in Brownsburg in Indiana on the 22nd this month!