John Jennings also brings along several other musicians who had worked with Mary Chapin Carpenter including drummer Robbie Magruder, guitarist Dean Magraw, and pianist Jonathan Carroll.

"Lightning's Blues" appears to be a love song written from the unusual perspective of lightning—complete with references to forest fires, Benjamin Franklin, pressure systems, and weather fronts.

[4] Musicians: In "Can't Make Up My Mind" Gorka creates a song about indecision through a series of paradoxical statements.

For example: I have a lot of trouble My boss at work Yeah I'm still self-employed I'd better wipe that smirk Musicians: tambourine & vocals "The Mortal Groove" is one of only two tracks not to include drums.

The lyrics also revisit the urban themes of blue-collar jobs and gentrification found in writing for his earlier albums such as Land of the Bottom Line and Jack's Crows.

"Campaign Trail" is spoken from the point of view of a candidate who is apologetic, but still seemingly insincere: And I hope you will forgive me if I don't return your call But there's someone watching every move I make And I've got more hands than I could ever shake At times the message appears to be of a more personal nature.

Musicians: Following his own forty-sixth birthday (nearly eight years after this album's release) Gorka proclaimed on his web site, "I am now officially older than Edgar The Party Man.

The song profiles yet another of Gorka's misfits, this time a war veteran working various jobs throughout the south to avoid winter's cold.