Ben Whetsell is a New York-based producer, singer/songwriter, musician and former lawyer, who has dabbled in music for over 30 years. In the wake of the pandemic, Whetsell decided to go all-in music, starting his solo recording project Mister Sunshine.

Whetsell’s latest single, “Day’s Half Gone” was written and recorded, on-and-off over the course of 10 months at Berklee NYC, where he completed his Masters studies. The song is a slow-burning and meditative anthem, anchored around twangy, country-meets-southern fried guitars and ukulele, big rousingly anthemic hooks and choruses and shifting meters paired with Whetsell’s dreamily plaintive delivery.

“Day’s Half Gone” describes Ben’s difficulties as a developing songwriter. “The parts about aging – feeling like I let music get away from me – are some of the first things I wrote in the program, but that’s a dead end: it isn’t a healthy headspace, and it definitely doesn’t make for a good song,” Ben said. ”Getting loud and getting over it is a lot more interesting.”