his Los Angeles studio 15 years ago. Croes was one of the first to use the Synclavier, a digital synthesizer that allowed him to lay down drums and bass electronically in the studio after hours. To get the organic quality to the sound, Croes had to slightly skew the pitch and timing. For more than a decade, Perkins used the recording as a demo tape until he got the itch to do the final master last year in Boulder. His song “Assembly Line” paints a picture of the working man and “Cadillac Bar & Grill” is a character sketch of a stripper in his apartment complex who woke him up every night as she came home drunk with another man. “Firefly” (”Turnin` it off and turnin` it on”) and “Last Train to Love City” (”Load up that love freight, baby says she can`t wait/to take me to the end of the line”) work on the level of that popular subset of metaphors known as the double entendre.

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