A straw-chewing journey from innocence to jaded maturity, something akin to a stripped-down roots version of The Wall." Jeff Prince, Fort Worth Weekly

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ROCK: Folk Rock, FOLK: Political



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When I was a kid, the songs on the radio were my parents songs. Then, when I was in 7th grade, the Everly Brothers sang Bye Bye Love and the radio was talking to me. I saw them at the State Fair of California one year when I was in high school. Matching black guitars. It's still burned in my brain. My junior year I sang Everly Brothers songs with a senior named Bob Waterman. We would play their records at talent shows and sing real loud over them. We were THE JIMBOBS. It was our music. Then, my senior year I had a girlfriend named Cathy and the Everly Brothers sang a song called Cathy's Clown. It was personal. I was humiliated. The Kingston Trio sang BLOWING IN THE WIND and I discovered "Question Songs." WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE? Questions that were suggesting that there were answers. Eventually I began to formulate my own questions and I'd either find some answers in the songs I was singing or I would take my guitar for a walk and listen for some answers of my own. I came to understand what the poet meant when he said, "The unexamined song is not worth writing." jmt