Four Letters. Twelve Songs. One Story.
What if Grammy®-winning singers and songwriters took your letters and turned them into songs?
The ‘family dinners’ started across the street from my house. I’d spent years chasing a dream and was beat down, discouraged, and looking for a place to land when one night I was invited to a neighbor’s house for dinner. I walked through her front door and stumbled into many of the musicians you’ll meet below. After dinner we played guitars and traded songs with the thundering of a big south swell against the cliffs.
I butchered a Bon Jovi cover and went to bed that night feeling like a little piece of me had found a place to rest. A few ‘family dinners’ later, I showed the letter from Emily to Sean Watkins. We wrote the song ‘For The Sender’ about her letter, and For The Sender was born.
Proceeds generated by the songs from each letter go to a cause of the sender’s choice.
THE MUSICIANS
Alex Woodard (Author)
Singer-songwriter and Hay House author Alex Woodard has toured nationally behind five critically-acclaimed albums, earning prestigious industry nods and sharing the stage with some of today’s most popular acts. His book/album package For The Sender features his story of release and redemption woven through songs written about real-life letters. When he’s not surfing in his beach town north of San Diego, Alex lives with a big dog and bigger horse in the mountains of Idaho. www.alexwoodard.com
Jon Foreman
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Jordan Pundik
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Sara Watkins
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Sean Watkins
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Nena Anderson
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Molly Jenson
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Jack Tempchin
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Jonathan Foreman is the lead singer, guitarist, main songwriter and co-founder of the decorated alternative rock band Switchfoot. Their major label debut, The Beautiful Letdown, released in 2003, went on to sell over 2.6 million copies. They have since been noted for their energetic live shows, and their seventh studio album Hello Hurricane received a Grammy award in 2011 for Best Rock Gospel Album. 
Jordan Pundik has been the frontman for the rock band New Found Glory for the last 15 years. New Found Glory have sold millions of records, toured the world, and shared the stage with everyone from Green Day to Paramore. 
Singer/songwriter/fiddle player Sara Watkins, who is best known as a founding member of the Grammy Award–winning, critically acclaimed, and platinum-selling band Nickel Creek, has made her self-titled debut solo album, recorded in Los Angeles and Nashville and produced by former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones. 
Sean Watkins is a guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Grammy Award–winning, critically acclaimed and platinum-selling band Nickel Creek. He is also a member of the duo Fiction Family and the supergroup Works Progress Administration. 
Nena Anderson “is known around town for her lush, bluesy country-and-jazz-tinged vocals (think Neko Case meets Billie Holiday)” -NPR/KPBS San Diego. The singer/songwriter/guitarist has earned 10 San Diego Music Awards in Jazz, Americana, Acoustic and New Artist categories, with her debut album “Beyond The Lights” being named “Best Album 2011″ by SD Rock N Roll. She has shared stages with indie bands to roots greats, from Jolie Holland to Dan Hicks and Dave Alvin. 
Molly Jenson has been a part of the San Diego music scene since 2004 when she collaborated with Greg Laswell on her debut album “Maybe Tomorrow”, which was independently released in 2005. She won the award or “Best Acoustic Act” at the 2007 San Diego Music Awards. Also in 2007, she collaborated with Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman on his solo “Spring” EP. In May, 2008, she signed to producer Mark Joseph’s Bully!Pulpit Records, in a joint partnership with Nettwerk Music Group (home to top artists like Sarah McLachlan, Avril Lavigne and The Cardigans). Her first album, “Maybe Tomorrow,” was rereleased worldwide on March 3, 2009 on Bully!Pulpit/Nettwerk featuring an added duet with Jon Foreman titled “Do You Only Love The Ones Who Look Like You.” Jenson has spent the last couple years touring worldwide and is currently writing and planning for her next release. 
Jack Tempchin wrote and co-wrote two songs on the Best-Selling U.S. Album of the 20th Century, respectively: “Peaceful Easy Feeling” and “Already Gone”, both on THE EAGLES: THEIR GREATEST HITS 1971-1975. He then landed three co-writes on the band’s later releases: on the Eagles’ 1994 HELL FREEZES OVER reunion release, Tempchin co-wrote “The Girl From Yesterday” with Glenn Frey and on The Eagles’ 2007 LONG ROAD OUT OF EDEN, Jack co-wrote two songs: “It’s Your World Now” and “Somebody”. He also wrote a dozen radio hits in the 1980s with Glenn Frey and the Billboard Top 10 track “Slow Dancing (Swayin To The Music)” for Johnny Rivers. His songs have been recorded or performed by many legendary names, from George Jones to Emmylou Harris to Dwight Yoakam, and song samples by platinum rappers JAY-Z & Coolio. To learn more about Jack visit 
Deane Cote