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LaNasa Nomad’s new rock album: the story behind Count Me Out
“Count Me Out” is a ten-track rock album about survival without swagger. It moves from finding love, through losing it, through duty and accountability, into hearing your own voice for the first time, reaching across distance, defying everyone who counted you out, and finally turning outward to whoever’s listening.
The album arrives Sunday, November 15, 2026. It runs about thirty-six minutes. Streaming links will be posted here when the record is out. Until then, this is the story the songs tell.
The sound
Heavy guitars, clean-to-grit vocal contrast, dual-male and male-female duets, one odd-time section per song. Confessional but not weak. Defiant but not bitter. Hopeful but earned.
The title track
The ninth song, and the album’s title, is “Count Me Out.” In it, he lived in a car while working a corporate job, went through two divorces and two Iraq deployments, and lost Army brothers. He never counted on talent or luck to keep him on his feet. He kept getting back up. A drill sergeant’s saying stayed with him through a lifetime of being written off: “Head down. Charge forward. Like a bull in breach.”
How the record moves
The album opens in love. On “The Love Beneath the Noise,” falling in love means letting her see him hesitate — and when he finally goes quiet, she pulls up a chair. “I Loved You Standing” is a mutual ending where two people still love each other and choose to leave, and nobody is the villain. “Where I Wake Up” tells one morning from three sides after he wakes up beside someone new.
“One Rose Whiteout” looks further back: a walk through a Pennsylvania blizzard with one rose for his first love. The walk really happened. Years later, memory feels like that weather, beautiful and blinding at the same time.
Duty arrives with “Three Hours,” in which Charlie Company needs someone and, within three hours, he is packed and on a convoy. “I Knew” owns his part in the end of a marriage: duty explains some missed calls, and he can account for the others, too. In the end, he is the one who packs and moves out.
On “First Time Out Loud,” at forty-six, he hears his own voice inside a finished song for the first time. “Can’t Stop Me From You” is a fictional love story about a deployed soldier and the woman holding home together, built around the pull of a connection that survives distance, danger, and orders.
After love, loss, duty, confession, and defiance, the record turns to whoever is listening. “Start Here” opens and closes with the same words: “If you want to know me, start here.” He wanted a stranger to hear their own life in a line. That’s why the record ends with an invitation.
The tracklist
- The Love Beneath the Noise
- I Loved You Standing
- Where I Wake Up
- One Rose Whiteout
- Three Hours
- I Knew
- First Time Out Loud
- Can’t Stop Me From You
- Count Me Out
- Start Here