My RPM challenge this year: acoustic guitar instrumental album with no more than three tracks on each tune (ok, maybe four!) This one is a single track with no overdubs. On the 12 string, the 4th,5th and 6th string pairs are tuned a fourth apart.

Featuring: Maddy Bunker, lyrics, guitar ideas Randy Leclair, lyrics, guitar, vocals, mandolin, bass Angela Nadeau, lyrics David Susman, lyrics, piano, commentary Amber Tatnall, lyrics, ukulele

The turning point for my RPM Challenge recordings this year - I'd planned out a bunch of songs to record with just vocals and an acoustic. After several of these sketches presented themselves to my brain, I threw the old plan out.

Written, more or less, after sitting in a car for four hours, after attending Laurie's Last.

I wrote this to be sung by a dear, now-departed friend who sadly committed suicide while working on a new album of very exciting material. I have a whole mess of "dead Kevin" songs which are in the wrong key, which I've been avoiding like the…

Best thing I've ever written. I still have no idea what it means.