FIRST KISS
This is a song about that bubbly feeling you get when you've met someone new. Personally, I get a bit awkward and silly. Once you land that first kiss, though, the only thing that really matters is how good you feel being with someone special.

LORI ANN
On October 19, 1998, I was scheduled to be on Extreme Gong, the nineties version of the Gong Show. They told me that I had to perform an original song. I didn't feel comfortable singing Won't You for a TV audience. I was driving home from a comedy show in Beverly Hills when I started flirting with a beautiful blonde lady in a green sport-utility truck. Her passenger side window had been broken out, so she couldn't roll it up. I guess she could have raced off and left my '69 VW Bus in the dust, but she didn't I was trying to persuade her to stop for coffee. She said she couldn't because she had a boyfriend. I did convince her to stop, take my card , and shake my hand, though. I told her about Extreme Gong. I told her if she watched it, she would probably hear a song that no one had ever heard. I said that I might even write a song about meeting her. I had already complimented her on her blue eyes. She said if I mentioned Blue eyes in the song, that would be worth some points. I began working on the song at 1:00am on the morning of the show and finished at about 6:30am. I won the grand prize of $317.69. To this day, Lori Ann doesn't know that she inspired a song.

SWEET RED CHERRY WINE
This song represents my first paid recording gig. Chris McCarty, who co-wrote Swingtown with and for Steve Miller, asked me to record a demo of this song. I think it's a beautiful song and I've enjoyed singing it over the years.

WON'T YOU
This is a song about a girl named Amy, whom I met in a laundromat. I helped her with her queen-size sheets and comforter. I gave her a quarter for the parking meter because she had used all of her money. I invited her to come listen to me sing that afternoon on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California. I began writing this song as soon as I got on the bus and finished after I arrived at the Promenade. Amy never showed up. To this day, she doesn't know that she inspired a song.

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