CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award Winner Peter Katz was supposed to make a solo acoustic record, but when the likes of Academy Award Winner Glen Hansard (The Swell Season, Once), Canadian Folk darlings The Good Lovelies, and steel-town siren Melissa McClelland agreed to sing along, plans changed.

Nevertheless "First of the Last to Know" marks the true arrival of Peter Katz, solo artist. Even with the good company on the record, his voice and acoustic guitar remain the focal point throughout. After years of touring solo while selling a full-on band record, Katz got tired of the same feedback: “We wish you would make a record that sounds like you playing live”.