Ruben Block has been Belgium-based rock band Triggerfinger’s front man since 1998, writing the bulk of the band’s five album’s worth of material, singing lead, and playing guitar. When recording Triggerfinger’s fifth album “Colossus” in L.A. with Mitchell Froom, Block and Froom hit it off and start talking about something that had been on Block’s mind for a while. Even during his band’s pretty intense touring/recording schedule, the idea “solo record” had come up before. Mitchell Froom had been a hero to Block ever since he produced “Kiko” for Los Lobos, being part of the “Latin Playboys” project, and for other work he’d done on acts like Elvis Costello and Suzanne Vega. Ruben Block is loose, and he’s having fun.