The unabashedly sentimental All These Songs of Praise was originally intended as a means for Keup to propose to his wife through songs inspired by the classic songwriters they had listened to together early in their relationship. 

Thankfully, he did not wait to complete the album before proposing – the high bar of his influences and daunting purpose left Keup puttering in his studio for nearly two decades before he finally decided enough was enough and called the album finished. In the interim, he and his wife married in 2004 and raise their family in rural Virginia on a farm additionally populated by goats, chickens and hound dogs.

Many of the basic tracks were cut in the disintegrating castle of a former Confederate general - Belmead Plantation in Powhatan, VA. Keup rented the space from the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, the property’s custodians, and, along with long-time collaborator Stewart Myers, built a mobile recording rig to take advantage of the gothic building’s stone porches and high vaunted ceilings.

Keup was additionally joined by Patrick Warren (Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Fiona Apple), Brian Jones (Liz Phair, Rachael Yamagata), Robert Lighthouse, Colin Killalea (Albert Hammond, Jr., Natalie Prass), Daniel Clarke (The War On Drugs, Kd Lang), Alan Parker,  with further arrangements by Matthew E. White and Trey Pollard (Foxygen, Natalie Prass).

The cover art features Holga and Hassleblad medium format photography by his wife, Corey Borgman.