The fifth studio outing by this Nashville-based musician. When he was recording 'Around the margins' he cut over 25 songs, only 15 of which made the final mix. 'The past is never past' features many of these other songs, and also a couple of new pieces, as well as various other rarities which had previously appeared as songwriting demos or as exclusives on special compilations, magazines and websites. Hoekstra is a remarkably eclectic and fluent performer, able to turn his hand to the blues, country, pop, rock, folk and gospel, and to flow seemingly effortlessly, sometimes several times in the same song, from one of these genres to another. (Inbetweens)