Keegan McInroe is a writer, musician and international touring artist based in Fort Worth, Texas and I’m very pleased to be able to premiere the video clip for his new single ‘Traveler’s Wind‘, the closing track from his recent fifth album Dusty Passports and Empty Beds.

The song is a drifter, a languid poetic sway of a song that gently rises and falls like its namesake winds. The instrumentation is perfectly placed and spaced with violin and pedal steel adding a dreamlike quality as McInroe sings of emotional and geographical restlessness, the importance of recognising the present tense and the beauty of living in the now.

According to Alemşah Fırat, the creator of the beautiful, hand-painted video clip, it was a deeply emotional creative experience.

“Each frame was hand-painted with watercolor, allowing me to fully immerse in the process. Time, represented by the 12 frames per second, became a medium to express the essence of transformation, freedom, and self-discovery in the song. Inspired by the vibrant culture and landscapes of Morocco, I sought to merge the tangible with the abstract, weaving fluid imagery and symbolic transitions into a narrative that feels both intimate and universal,” Firat explains. “The video reflects a journey—physical and emotional—where the traveler is shaped by the landscapes, cultures, and people they encounter; celebrating the beauty of change and the fleeting, yet eternal, nature of human experience.I hope it resonates with others as deeply as it did with me, as every journey is a journey made to discover oneself.”

Keeping in spirit with the troubadours and minstrels that came before him, Keegan has spent the better part of the last two decades traversing the roads, wildernesses, and cities of the Old World and New, weaving the resulting experiences and observations together with varied influences from folk, country, and the blues to create an original and evolving tapestry of story-driven American roots music. He’s shared the stage with Leon Russell, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Willis Alan Ramsey, Otis Taylor, Carolyn Wonderland, Ian Moore, Shovels & Rope, Kaitlin Butts, Charley Crockett, and others.