"How does the city in Northern California become the title of a collection of songs? The short answer is that I just liked the sound of it, I guess. Maybe that's also the answer for why one gets involved in music where the subjective scene hypes, denigrates, glorifies, destroys, chews and spits with relentless rapidity, but where an ultimate sense of purpose is still found.

Yep, but it all starts with the songs. Most of these songs were written in a slack key or alternate tunings that I either looked up or made up. Using alternate tunings seems to clear one's head and focus one's brain when writing. I also learned to embrace some instrumentation that I had previously eschewed. There is a liberation of sorts in doing that."