1- Graffiti 4:33 CA
2- Are We There Yet, Mama? 4:06   Walter Hyatt
3- Come See Me, Baby 4:43    Douglas Peters
4- Speed and Steel 4:02 CA
5- Between Hello and Goodbye 4:00 Moses-Mo/CA 
6- Wake Up to Thunder 5:21 CA
7- Die Happy 4:49 CA
8- Helium Balloon 3:41 CA
9- Walking in Paris 2:44 CA
10- Turtle Dove 2:35 Sea Island Singers
11- Fragile 4:28 Ralston Bowles
12- Song For Page 3:50 CA 
Bonus trks:
13- Love Aint' Goin' Nowhere 4:15 Mother's Finest 
14- Echo Chamber - "Sweet Juliette" 3:06 CA

These words are written on every green room and road house bathroom wall from Atlanta to Seattle, and at least under 5 coats of paint at the former Little 5 Points Pub.

Do you need the chase?
Does it blow your skirt up?
Do you know what that tug is, 
Can you identify the source of?

I've been living the good life
Tapping my own ap for sugar
Now I'm ready to lay it down
Straight flush full house
Everyone wins, everyone wins

chorus:

Cause I'm ready, gaining speed
Getting most of what I need
Getting hold and holding tight
I'm betting the whole
Cause I'm betting my life

bridge:

Cause I'm ready
Yes I'm ready
Like a blind man gaining sight
I'm coming back to life

In these days of thick and thin
All are shocked to see the state we're in
who got us here, who'll get us out?
choose what we can and can't without

bridge
chorus

Walter Hyatt and I performed together at Eddie's Attic, and in Greenville, SC in the round with David Olny. I was so taken by his gentle strength, his gentle way, and his thoughtful approach to writing.

Driving down the road past the railroad tracks
a whole lot of howlin from the kids in back

Are we There Yet, Mama?
Are we There Yet, Mama?
Gonna take just a little while,
Are we There There Yet, Mama
Another half a mile, child

Eight miles back there's a mean old man
she never gonna let him touch the kids again

Are we There Yet, Mama?
Are we There Yet, Mama?
Gonna take just a little while,
Are we There There Yet, Mama
Another half a mile, child

Tears in her eyes, all her clothes in the trunk
Tryin to make a getaway in this piece of junk

Billboard says we've come a long way
Ain't much a woman can't do today

Are we There Yet, Mama?
Are we There Yet, Mama?
Gonna take just a little while,
Are we There There Yet, Mama
Another half a mile, child

I first heard Doug play in a funky red neck bar  somewhere in the country outside of Macon. A cross between Stevie Ray Vaughn and Dickie Betts. His songs are Southern through and through, and I call this song of his the place where blues meets country.

Come See me Baby
You know I always come see you
Come See Me Baby
You know I always come see you
you've been spending all your spare time
with those women been chasin you

Damn it darlin, I can't seem to win your heart
damn it darlin, I can't seem to keep your heart
I try so hard to love you
You just keep tearing me apart

You're such a fine lookin man
you can have any woman you desire
You're such a fine lookin man
you can have any woman you desire
Ijust got to have you, Babe
You set my heart on fire

Come see me Baby
I want you to stay with me all night
Come see me Baby
I want you to stay with me all night
Show me you still care
I won't do nothing but treat you right

Scars later, I tell myself to slow down, or life will do it for you. Hurling ourselves through space at speeds of immense proportions…to get to the gig, to get home. Got to remember to breathe. Slow down. Watch the birds, hear the toads. Feel the wind. Sleep well.

I've got one, I've got two
I've got enough here, enough here
For me and you
Keep it strong and in between the hedges
Keep your hands on the wheel
Eyes on the road
And beware of soft shoulders and ledges
Cause Speed and Steel, Speed and Steel 
Don't like flesh and bone

Mo and I wrote this together. Writing songs with Mo saved my life. That is what this song is about.

When you want someone, you want them to be
Just like you want them to be
When you need someone, you'll take them
Just like they are

It's a 'give' thing. If you can learn to live with that
You'll know it
And if it's love you gain
You got to learn to give it back
Don't step on a crack
Don't expect your money back

Desire follows need
On a trip that never ends, plan and you see
Between Hello and Goodbye
There's a lot of tears there's a whole lot of love

When you try too hard, it might be
Bad as not trying enough
Keeping up your guard, and trying 
To roll with the punch

It's a 'live' thing, if you can learn to give to that
You'll know it
And if it's love you gain
You've got to learn to give it back
Don't step on a crack
Don't expect your money back
Desire follows need
On a trip never ends, you plant and you see

Between Hello and Goodbye, there's a lot of tears
There's a whole lot of love.

One cold fall morning in 2004, on a mountainside north of Taos, life was right then, not something you dreamed of for later... The skies opened up and I fell up into it. 

Wake Up to Thunder
Echo down the valley
Rain turns to snow
And the hills turn white around us

Today is all we have
There will be no other
Promise. But to live
And be glad that we

Wake Up to Thunder

Written for my grandfather, who was sad about some things he'd done, or hadn't done, in his life when faced with dying. I watched him spend his last days fretting over these things. I pray he is at peace.

Hear me cry, till the time of love's embrace
Then hear me cry cry, with a smile on my face

If I die, if tomorrow falls, I Die Happy
I've had it all

I lost my love, carried on with a broken heart
Like a little child, I was lost nad torn apart
Promised myself (self)
I would find a way
To let the pain go (shake it)
make this sweet love stay

If I die, if tomorrow falls, I Die Happy
I've had it all

I've been up, I've been down
Took a long walk on a short pier
You can bet your sweet bottom, baby
I'm still here, that's why I'm happy

Where do you go when the earth and her inhabitants feel too hot, and move too fast? Up and out.

To leave this place, head up and out
Tethered to the wind
Nothing but clouds
Reach the upper sphere
You burst and you're freer
Than we are down here on Earth

Every time my heart calls out your name
My soul knows to give you back
From whence you came
Back into the blue
I'm letting you go
Helium Balloon, some how they know

Emma Lee Ramsey of the Sea Island Singers sang this to me when I was a child. Alan Lomax recorded the Sea Island Singers in 1965. I remember when Emily got famous. She went to California and sang around the country. I missed her then and I miss her now.

Turtle Dove done drew its wings
Turtle Dove done drew its wings
Turtle Dove done drew its wings
Went outside and healed a saint

Singing Adam and Eve, Oh no
Adam and Eve, don't tell that to me
Just meet me at the door
Don't tell that to me
Just Sa-sa-la do a so-la-sa-ree

My name is written on David's line
My name is written on David's line
My name is written on David's line
I'm going to heaven on the wheel of time

Singing Adam and Eve, Oh no
Adam and Eve, don't tell that to me
Just meet me at the door
Don't tell that to me
Just Sa-sa-la do a so-la-sa-ree

When I get to heaven I know the rule
When I get to heaven I know the rule
When I get to heaven I know the rule
Keep it right down to the basenbules

Singing Adam and Eve, Oh no
Adam and Eve, don't tell that to me
Just meet me at the door
Don't tell that to me
Just Sa-sa-la do a so-la-sa-ree

The first time I heard Ralston Bowles sing "Fragile", I cried. I knew I had to sing this song.

For whatever you may think of me
What ever thoughts your mind allows
I am not who I would like to be
Just who I am right now
And if I have caused you any pain
If the words I spoke weren't kind
I confess, repent and take the blame
Let's just leave this all behind

For we are Fragile, everyone
We all long for something more
Things are done
Things are said
Pieces hit the floor
We see how Fragile

Ah, but words are not enough, I know
Sometimes words are all that comes
In this empty field of quid pro quo
The last one standing gets no crown

And if I have caused you any pain
If the words I spoke weren't kind
I confess, repent and take the blame
Let's just leave this all behind

For we are Fragile, everyone
We all long for something more
Things are done
things are said
Pieces hit the floor
We see how Fragile

For whatever you may think of me
What ever thoughts your mind allows
I am not where I would like to be
Just where I am right now

And that is FRAGILE

When my daughter turned 16, I wrote this for her. Letting go is the hardest part about being a parent.

Hey my friend, it's been a while
Dinner's getting cold
It's going on 3 years, now
I can still see you laughing
Singing in the sun
Riding by my side
Healing the blind in everyone

And just as a veil is lifted
So shines a light in this room
How can something so precious 
Ever be clouded by gloom?
Reach out and touch the stars
And realize how precious you are
In my life, oh my sweet baby

Sometimes you answer when I call
It sooths the searing vacuum here 
That was you, that's all
Please drive like someone cares
And watch your back out there
And don't be a stranger
While you dazzle the world
With your amazing grace

live @ Camp Jam - Geoff Achison on guitar- Pat Dupuis on congos

'78 - recorded live on a battery-powered cassette player, inside an echo chamber 5 stories high inside the defunct mill / factory on the Ocmulgee River in Juliette Ga., long before "Fried Green Tomatoes" brought life back into this ghost town…the train just happened to go by as I was recording.