Song written and performed by Phil Close and Tangmo.

I been walkin' since 3 am From Empire to Birmingham An' now I'm headed down Vulcan Lane Kudzu eatin' the road away Air ain't friendly, skies are gray An' things round here don't seem the same If there's one thing for sure that's true…

This one is for my Grandson, cause he loves to boogie!

This composition is a remix/reincarnation of a [previous tune](http://alonetone.com/gcd/tracks/seven-flavors-of-milk) I wrote a while back. I wasn't ever quite satisfied with it and had neglected to incorporate a nifty additional bit of melodic…

instrumental. essentially a blues tune, from a universe where blue is green.

This Lovin’ Cup- I was watching the idiot box and just holding my guitar when this little vamp on a B chord came out of nowhere. Using the same recorder, I recorded about 20 seconds of the riff. The lyrical idea came on the trip to Chicago, while…

Believe it or not, this song was written while swimming laps in the high school pool (I had to have the life-guard kid write down lines for me every time I returned from the deep end). Oddly enough, the first line I came up with was "Swimming…

There are a bunch of bass tracks going on here. Headphones help pick out what's going on. This one came to me leaving Taos on the drive back to Phoenix, coming down out of the canyon. I suddenly became conscious of a disturbing dream from the…

The execution is not perfect, but the concept works.

I guess this would be the "centerpiece" of the album. Like the rest of the album it really stumbles along the line between droney and simply repetitive, and it needs a bit of a reworking to reach its potential.

Another downer, what can I say? Oddly enough though, it makes me smile.

quick little mandolin number to round out my album for the year!!

Track 9. I love when my inane babble turns into a useful lyric.

This was one of the unnamed tracks that I recorded, forgot about, and rediscovered later in the month. It's basically about working the night shift on an office job. (You see really weird things at night when an office building is empty and quiet…