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Life changed for Truman when, on a fateful day in Los Angeles, he bought a guitar from a girl in a bar for $50. Prior to that, Truman wrote songs almost exclusively on piano an instrument he learned to play sitting on his grandmother's lap as a young child in Minneapolis. Guitar in hand, Truman hibernated in his room for the better part of a year, employing the same routine day in and day out: go to work, come home, open a bottle of Jack Daniels and press "Record." As time passed, Truman's collection of songs grew and every once in a while he'd send them out to various labels. He eventually struck paydirt when the president of Geffen Records came calling. Naming his 2004 debut after the street where his dad's barbershop had been, Payne Avenue is a sparkling, emotive effort that wears the gritty sound of the Midwest on its grooves.