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Little Grey Sheep had an oddball path to fruition. To say the least. Most of the songs on the album had been orphaned at some point in their lifetimes. They span the course of seven years . . . and at some point, each had been deemed too far askew to fit neatly, side-by-side, along its peers . . . and each was consequently pared from the album of the era in which it might rightly have belonged.And that's not to say that the songs themselves are any weaker . . . in fact, some are my favorites. And it's not to say that they didn't belong in the public ear . . . because I felt like they did. It's just that they didn't fit, thematically, with the other albums I was making.But I had the realization one day, when I was updating my list of "available songs," that this bevy of grey sheep songs had grown to an album-sized flock . . . and that their lack of unifying theme was, in fact, a unifying theme in and of itself.What pulled these songs together was the same thing that had previously culled them from the rest of the flock . . . and that's that each has a very personal meaning for me, and each came from a very particular episode in my life. And I realized that that's what had made them sit uncomfortably next to my other songs . . . their very tight focused and personal nature . . . whereas the songs I was putting on those other records were more narrative and generalized and abstract. My last album was called "Parables" and drew off the archetypal world, the generalized human experience. Little Grey Sheep draws off of my particular world and my particular experience. Tracks  listing: 1. Leaves Are Burning2. Drawing Board 3. Go Ugly Early4. Cliff Song 5. Around the Waist6. Adios to Tejasito 7. Tales of Sweet Odysseus8. Emigrant, MT9. California's On Fire10. Song for Judy & Bridget11. Company of Friends12. Troubles Comes CallingMet dank aan Motormuijs