Recorded last night, quickly, without microphones, on a new computer, out at the end of the world, on an island, in a small summer house I was at in 2008, to try to record songs by myself. Now I can look at all thats gone on between and fill the gaps. 

Military Madness (Graham Nash)

Recorded on the day after Merle Haggard passed away, as a tribute to him and Townes. Started learning this song at my grandmothers house outside Detroit this past winter singing around the fireplace with my uncle and cousins and decided to record it in the first weeks while staying at the apartment in Bed-stuy, and realized that it was Townes' birthday when I first tried to record it. Regardless of this co-incidence, my computer deleted the take that I wanted to use -- though it was probably not worth keeping anyway -- and it wasn't until today, when I saw that Merle Haggard had died that I decided to start and finish this recording at my mother's house on Long Island, while I am dropping off musical gear that cannot fit in the apartment. That's my whole story of this song, and there's a whole other story within the song itself, too. Farewell to the great Merle Haggard and thanks to Townes for writing a wrenching tale. 

Pancho And Lefty (Townes Van Zandt)

Two kinds of anger represented here. First, Martin Newell from the Cleaners from Venus

Zach Puls