"'New American Blues' came for a time when I was uncertain if I was being paranoid, or I was really being wiretapped by the authorities and followed by organized crime of some sort or another. It made me want to duet with Bombay Timmy Gibson and croon these New American Blues. The verse about the guy with the theory that the Earth was producing it's own oil (obvious at so many levels) was much weirder than it sounds. The end of the song gets pretty weird." -Brian J. Kenny (About the Music - 2011)