During his 25-year career as a storytelling balladeer in the tradition of John Prine, Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, Tim Grimm has rightfully earned a reputation as a master songwriter at the top of his form. In spring of 2024 he released a the single, Broken Truth, a heartfelt ballad reflecting his anguish over current American politics. Broken Truth finished 2024 as the #1 most-played song on folk radio, marking the fifth time in ten years one of Grimm's songs has received that distinction. Tim Grimm's last album (The Little In-Between, 2023) was a vessel for intensely personal, solitary songs, and production on The Little In-Between was appropriately spare. In Bones of Trees, Tim Grimm zooms his songwriting lens back outward, writing keen social observations in the voices of vibrant characters from his life, travels, and imagination. Bones of Trees also finds Grimm surrounded by robust new community, with harmony vocals on seven songs and rich, varied instrumentation provided by a posse of Grimm's close friends and a variety of noted musicians from America and the UK, where Grimm frequently travels (including master guitarist Sergio Webb's electric guitar and dobro, Jono Manson's rustic percussion, Scottish singer Beth Malcolm's ethereal harmonies, and Dougie Pincock's Scottish pipes).