This mood of this album was inspired my Joni Mitchell's Court And Spark and Jackson Browne's Saturate Before Using. I say that because I was listening to those albums in between recording sessions for this album. In 1996 I was living with my future wife in a trailer in the AZ desert. I was performing around Phoenix and Scottsdale. I had made cassette tapes that I sold at my gigs and Lauren Marovich , the person who handled all my cassettes, asked if I wanted to record again. I really wasn't sure. I had no desire to market my music but had a lot of music I had been writing. I checked out the studio with Lauren and met Andy Kern. I recorded about 9 piano vocal tracks in one day. Andy would become a great friend and creative partner who I trusted to bounce ideas off of and produce my music That was the beginning of In Sight. Jim Brunberg and Jeff Pehrson (from Box Set) sang harmonies on Nothing Like Love while Jeff sang on It Takes Love and Back Down. Anne Reed sang on Silent Eye. John Ebinger played bass on Watered Down and The Fighter. Jason Montero and Joe Frost from The Woodband played on Silent Eye and The Way You Wait. This was a labor of love.

Watered Down was while I was living with Tim Dawe who wrote for the band It's A Beautiful Day. I wrote it on the piano in the basement of the house we rented. 1981

It Takes Love: Written at a time that I felt pretty secure in life. I was living with my girlfriend Geri and working at Cable Oakland. It was 1987.

Alone was the feeling I had for most of 1990 'till 1992. I wrote the song to fit the feeling in 1993. Another one of my songs lyrically inspired my Mickey Newbury.

The Way You Wait; An affirmation to myself.

Nothing Like Love: IUsed to sing this at The Albion in San Francisco. I sang it there with Jeff Pehrson and Matt Twain one night on the old piano in the back room. There was no one else back there. I think Jeff Pehrson and either Matt Twain or Jim Brunberg sang it with me in the back of the Albion one night and years later Jeff and Jim sang it with me on this recording.

Silent Eye: A song about the feminine side of things like the moon, the earth..."He let her down" starts the song off...I feel that way about all things feminine...it is sometimes difficult to garnish the respect required by those things that bear, support, and nourish life.

Songman: I was thinking about Mickey Newbury who called me every 4 to 6 months after we met in the late 1980s It was then opened for him at the old Sweetwater in Mill Valley. I thought of him as the Songman. Now I think of myself as The Songman....I also think there are millions songwriter's who never get heard and it is to all of them I dedicate this song.

Back Down: I don't understand why it is so difficult to walk away..except for the social pressures around that say you must always win. .

The Fighter: There are so many arenas that never get credit for all the battles going on in the world. This one is about the office place.