Composed for Troy Kaiser's short film Train Tracks. A suicidal teen takes his own life on the tracks

This song's going on 32 years old... Some 12 years older than I was when I wrote it!! I borrowed the title from one of my favourite madrigals, The Silver Swan by Orlando Gibbons: "The silver swan who living hath no note, when death approached…

Now that my album Texas Tonefreak is almost "out of print", I'll be posting the tracks up here. Kip Siewert on harmonica Philip Waite on drums me on everything else http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kavin

What with all the great Zep covers posted by Tworegs and Chris Vaisvil, here's mine, I enlisted the vocal of the man himself, thanks Reg! Also note my new fretless strat as second guitar here.

The old Steel Guitar Rag. A two-channel experiment on the new Seagull. Left is bridge pickup, right is LR Baggs soundhole pickup.

Fingerstyle improv