Singled Out: Jackie Greene's Shaky Ground

I started writing this tune in the Fall of 2008. I had pages and pages of verses, but I didn't have a chorus. Each verse is a different character, sometimes from a different time and place. Time is a funny thing in songs. I feel like it's okay to jump around at random. I like to play with words sometimes. Mostly it's nonsense..."piano rain" was something I had written down and never got to use it before.

"Charlie" is my dog. I just sort of imagined a work dog and a farmer for the last verse. For some reason, it made sense to me.

The chorus came a bit later and I started making demo's of the song. My friend Tim Bluhm changed some of the words in the chorus and it ended up tying it together very nicely. Soon after, we recorded the final version of it. It all came together perfectly.