Down South (California)

Back to the beginning… We'd just about finished assembling this CD when, at the last minute, I had this weird urge to go back and revisit the first song (I must have driven Trish bonkers doing that). I called on Stan Shapiro, a dear friend I met through "Beach Boy Land" (Stan had written lyrics for some incredible unreleased Dennis Wilson songs), and he helped to come up with a new approach, kinda summing up the whole "California Myth" thing from the point of view of a guy trying to persuade a girl to come to the Promised Land of the Pacific...