For 21-year-old Trevor Hall, music is a meditation, an expression of love and a means to bring people together. “I just tried to watch it flow through me and tried not to control it,” says the South Carolina- born singer-songwriter about the creative energy which went into writing the songs on his debut Geffen album, The Elephant’s Door. “The songs in turn become a tool, a map and a way to get to a universal place in my own personal journey.” His reggae-inflected acoustic rock takes on a variety of musical forms and expressions - like ‘60s Brit-pop rhythms of “Sun and Moon” and the dance-hall beat of “31 Flavors” to the cascading lyrics in “Ghosts,” the hip-hop nursery rhymes of “Other Ways,” the acoustic jump blues of “Beautiful Lunatic” and the sing-song story-telling of the Dylanesque “Sunny Sky” and “Liquor Store.” Produced by Paul McCartney drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. and brother Mateo at Burbank’s Center Staging studio, Hall’s major label bow follows last year’s John Alagia-produced, four-song EP The Rascals Have Returned, a six-track live EP Trevor Hall Live recorded at the Mint and Hotel Café in Los Angeles and his 2004 indie debut, Lace Up Your Shoes, also produced by Alagia (Dave Matthews, John Mayer, Jason Mraz).