I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right after I hung up the phone, I wrote another song and started writing another, and I'm going, "Hey, I can't wait. I should be doing this now!" My experience tells me that when it's there, it's there, and you can't make it wait. So I got Jimmy Keltner and Paul Bushnell, two good guys, and went in and did this record ["Peace Trail"].

Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.

It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.

We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

I watched the needle take another man.