On April 24th, Jeff Symonds releases the final pre-single, “Estate Sale,” from his upcoming second album “Don’t Worry, I Do Alright,” which will drop on May 18th, 2026.

“’Estate Sale’ is about going home to help your folks clean out their attic before a big move, and rediscovering the old stuff and memories that are waiting for you up there,” says Symonds. “I was interested in thinking about the past and how it collides and impacts the present, and how important it is to make peace with it if you want to go forward.” Filled with old guitars, magazines, books, clothes, and ghosts, “Estate Sale” will speak to anyone that carries a childhood around with them.  A stomping two-step, the song features biting lead guitar from Gawain Matthews, while Jeff handles everything else.  “The song went through a lot of changes, lyrical and musical, before we got it right.  I played it on stage a dozen times in different variations before it really locked in.”

“Estate Sale” will be followed a month later by Jeff’s second full-length album, “Don’t Worry, I Do Alright.” The album features the four pre-release singles (including “48 Lines About 12 Men (For Craig Finn),” “Water From A Glass,” and “Back Of The Stage”) and it closes with the 12 ½ minute epic track “2:17pm (Solano And Masonic)” on which Jeff imagines four characters facing one another on a city block.  Featuring melodies that intersect across the song and four distinct characters, it’s a deliberately epic track to close the record. “I had five standalone songs finished for a year that I just loved and which fit together thematically, and I kept wondering whether I should just release them as an EP, but I had also had this four-note melody stuck in my head. Last summer, with the rest of my family out of town, I sat down at the piano with those four notes, stayed up all night, and at dawn I had “2:17” start to finish, music and lyrics.  Then I knew I had an album.”  Jeff asked three singers to “play” the other roles besides himself on “2:17:” Susee Witt, singer-songwriter Hilary Fonda Webb, and Jeff’s frequent collaborator Megan Slankard. “They were so kind—when I first heard the whole thing all mixed together with everyone’s parts in place, it felt like hearing the last 20 years of my musical life come together. All three of them are such great singers, and in individual ways. It’s such a treat to be on a track with them all.” 

Witt also sings lead on the ballad “It’s Too Late.” “My version was fine, but I asked Susee to sing it with me at a show, and when I heard her sing it, I knew that was the one that really resonated.” In addition, “Don’t Worry, I Do Alright” features Jeff’s longtime friends James DePrato and Gawain Matthews on guitars.  “On most instruments, I can realize the sounds I hear in my head, but Dip and Gawain crucially hear things I can’t, and that just takes all the tunes to a higher level.”

“Don’t Worry, I Do Alright” is Jeff’s sixth release on ElectraCast, following his debut album riverrun, standalone single “Every Five Minutes,” and EPs “Three Portraits” and “The Deep Dive Vol. 1 and 2.”  Dave Franklin from The Big Takeover describes Jeff as an artist who “does more than write songs; he examines life’s minutiae and tune the everyday into the profound, the humdrum into the revelatory, and the personal into the relatable.”  That skill is on especially-full display on both of these upcoming releases.

 You can also hear Jeff on the 50 Years of Music with 50 Year-Old White Guys podcast.