This one is a true story. It's all true and I take delight in being able to sing the line "I was almost hit by a tan sedan the morning after the night we lost the van."

I wrote this one about mysterious singer who used to busk at a gas station in Redding. It was his scene and he played it like he owned it.He had a song called "Concrete Mana" and another one called "Luanne" that I wish I had recorded.

This is a song about an unknown girl in an mysterious painting....

"Want to write a shout-out to Jimmy Six-Pence or Vic Swankly and let some of that off your chest for awhile? Don't think about it, just trust yourself to find it: it's your damn song, who's going to know if you messed it up. Drive on, Soldier…

Another true tale. This one chronicling the turning point in my life: getting nearly-killed with brass knuckles on Paine's Creek Road in Red Buff. Ca. in 1992.

When the times get tough and you begin to hit bottom, keep the faith: you must be living somebody else's dream. "Herman Cian's smoking ad, the Occupation movement, Prii and boots, a potential financial index relating to the height of women…

This chord progression came to me along with the title. I had no lyrics until I met Zeldar from Gamma Quadrant at the Nation's on Webster Street in Alameda, Ca. This might be my pop song....

"I got really into Lightning Hopkins in 2001. I used to listen to him when I was bottling olive in the early days at Pacific Sun Olive Oil. I wrote a bunch of songs in my head while I was bottling and labeling and dipping the bottles in the wax…

This was an entirely improvised tune. The story kind of tells itself. Red wine and marijuana on the roof of the Hotel Vitale can lead to events that are no bueno. Blacking out behind the wheel is no bueno. Ingesting marijuana unknowingly in a…