The creative process has fascinated and mystified since the beginning of time, and many have tried to understand it - to no avail. The fact is, it’s different for each one of us. No one can pinpoint it. Therein lies its beauty and its relevance.

While creating the epic album A Love Supreme, John Coltrane is quoted as saying, “One thought can produce millions of vibrations”. From this, I take the idea that creative inspiration can be found anywhere, anytime, and that it has a power to grow from the most embryonic of ideas. Lark is the product of such an idea - a definitive passion and calling that I have carried with me throughout my life and never lost sight of - the idea that I would one day create a collection of my songs - an album. It has taken four full years to create, and has been worth every single moment, no matter how maddeningly long the process has been. It’s a highly personal journal of my life during that time - growth, passion, love, reflection, loss, sadness, disappointment, elation, and hope. The people I know and the places I’ve been have inspired it.

I wish to thank all of those who have been a part of my life - whether they are here now or gone. First and foremost, I wish to thank my life-long friend and music mentor, Peter Wilder, for his unconditional love, support, encouragement, patience, perseverance, humor, vision, energy, perspective, technical expertise, and generous donation of his time and home - all of which were paramount in making this album a reality. I also wish to thank his family - Lynda, Nicholas, and Eli - who are very dear to me. My music teacher from high school, who nurtured my interest in song and encouraged me to explore every domain of musicality. My parents, whom I love. Each of their personalities have been an influence in shaping who I am, and I draw inspiration from them. And my extended family and friends - each and every beautiful one of them - for what they teach me about life, love, humor, and the path that we all travel, in our own way, to move toward personal fulfillment and peace. Whatever the greater definition of that may be...


- Meg Chambers


Very rarely in one's creative life does one get the opportunity to collect the flowing art of a "natural." Meg Chambers is just that. I have been privileged to know Meg for over two decades and the currents of her talent have been ever developing and increasing in scope since the beginnings. The challenge, from a production stand point, was not to get in the way of the muse - but instead to find ways to uncover it more completely.

In many ways, Lark is a very naked album - many songs are solo instrumental, solo vocal - but the more detailed arrangements never get in the way of the gift Meg has within the purity and clarity of her voice. It has been a tremendous honor to work so closely on these recordings, and I hope a great deal of people get to hear it. It's about as magical as a recording gets.

- Peter Bruce Wilder