Shannon began recording in 2009 with producer Neilson Hubbard to see what might come of it. She immediately found a match, and they kept recording until Water Bound was a vision realized. “When I listen to the how the album begins,” Whitworth says in reference to the musical opening of the layered and meditative “Run To Roll On Home”, “it reminds me of a spring coming up from the ground. That was Neilson’s idea.”