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 a friend, his name is Tim, and he really likes donkey songs. Letter Seventeen on Mandolin, Banjo, Backing Vocals, Beer bottle, hoots n hollers...

I wrote this on the shores of a lake in Redwood City.

"In 1992, I had my head cracked open by a guy with brass knuckles on Payne's Creek Road in Red Bluff, California. I believe his name was Mickey Cortez and he was with a guy named Jason Berg and a few other guys. I was very nearly killed and I…

"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…

Recorded by Dave Greenburg at Boomtown in Sausalito, Ca. on 4/19/2000.

Don Bolles was a newspaper reporter who was killed in Phoenix, Arizona in 1976 while investigating a land deal that was closely tied to the Mafia. He was blown up in front of the Hotel Clarendon, and I had a scary experience at the same hotel…

Written in Belgium recorded in Redding. A true story in it's entirety.

Don Bolles was a newspaper reporter who was killed in Phoenix, Arizona in 1976 while investigating a land deal that was closely tied to the Mafia. He was blown up in front of the Hotel Clarendon, and I had a scary experience at the same hotel…