Jacob Goins is a folk songwriter, performer, and producer from the far west of North Carolina. His writing is born of woods, of the emergence and recession of light, and of the silence in which he lingers. He strives to make art that doesn’t sing over the quiet, but sings along with it. Jacob's album 'a spring may well up' was written in the years of the pandemic, when he experienced a deep season of artistic drought. It is meant as an encouragement, after learning that musicians and poets aren’t the only ones who lose their song sometimes.