Norwegian songwriter Thomas Dybdahl has added the final touches to his 7th solo album "The Great Plains" in Propeller Studio in Oslo, and will be released four years after "What's Left Is Forever" debuted on top of the Norwegian sales charts and was nominated for a Grammy in the US. This time, Thomas has worked with producer Kare Vestrheim and songwriters Ingrid Helene Hvik (Highasakite), Nina Nielsen, David Baerwald and David Poe. The band on the album consists of Nikolai Eilertsen (BIGBANG, Elephant9) on bass, Pal Hausken (In The Country, Monica Heldal) on drums and Thomas Dybdahl and Kare Vestrheim on guitars and keyboards. "I've been lucky enough to get write with some of my favorite musicians on this album and I cannot wait to share this music and go on tour with these wonderful songs. The songs on this album are mostly about being in a place in life where you suddenly have time to look in the mirror and into yourself, only to discover that you almost do not recognize the man looking back at you. Songs about the realization that you don't know as well as you thought, songs about childhood, family and songs about those moments, that in their wake, you can clearly see what was important for everything that came afterward."