Fables of Time and Place

I'd say this record probably has more feeling of time and place

It's not as if we're going back to the civil war days but

I do get a feel more than any of the other records

That it's a, you know, a southern record

From a particular era, and really it's the time we live in now

Maybe encompassing traditions that have fallen by the wayside

That's actually pretty close to why we had it that way

You can always put too fine a point on something like that

And I always say well it's just a title

We could have called it flat head, slap head

But, that wouldn't have been a really correct choice for the album

The fact that maybe this record is more

A little bit more concerned with heritage

You know, had to do with reconstruction and the fables bit

And that it is more of a fables record

Its more, you know

Like old man Kinsey is almost like

A children's story (vignettes and such)

That's because he's a nut

It's actually about a real person

Can we get sued for this, Michael?

(What?)

Can we tell about old man Kinsey?

(Oh yeah, yeah, sure, he'll never know)

He'll never know, he doesn't listen to radio

Um, he's just a friend of a friend

That lives in Summerville, Georgia

Who, is, out to lunch

His job, for the longest time was kidnapping dogs

And ransoming them

And then getting drunk on the proceeds

That was one of the more clever ideas we had

And Michael knows him, I never actually met him

I just heard these third hand stories of

Well Kinsey did it again, you know

(If you look in the inside sleeve, of Reckoning)

(The picture of Howard Finster, there's a figure in the background)

(Siting down on the couch)

(That's Kinsey)

He's a wonderful man in his own right

I mean, he's one of those southern guys

That doesn't really care about anything

And there's some phrases you could use

That you can't use on the radio

About his view of life