“Bucket” is a great old Hank Williams tune about a time when, like Frankie from the folk tune “Frankie and Johnny,” you could go down to the corner saloon and buy a bucket o’ beer.

“Dark Hollow” was learned from Bob Weir and the Grateful Dead from the album “Reckoning.” Anybody who is skeptical about the Dead needs to hear “Reckoning” in its entirety.

“Paranoia Blues” was inspired by a repeat MUNI rider who I had the displeasure of observing on several occasions.

These were the first crop of songs recorded after those on Grandma’s Album and I was nervous as to whether or not I would be stuck playing “Twisted” and “Hey Bartender” every night for the rest of my life. I guess I was afraid that my best songs…

“Spiritual #1” was written about an escalator at the 16th Street/Mission BART station that always had a pile of some unknown substance gurgling at the bottom landing. Beware the “Slide of filth.”