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"Questions And Answers"

JB: It’s a very classic blues. I like the ying and yang aspect of it. It’s like: “Why do you have to be so
mean, woman?” That’s the hard truth in a hard question. Then the answer is this kind of
whimsical, you know: “Well, tells you why”! I just like the way that flows and it’s a fun-song to
play. I look forward to playin’ that one live a lot.

"Mind's Eye"

JB: "Mind's Eye!" That’s one of the big songs, the ballad that I

wrote with my friend James House. And it’s about keeping
things in perspective. It’s about understanding the
peripheries of life. Like: What do you see on your left,
what do you see on your right, when you’re laser
focused and obsessed with something. Sometimes you
don’t see the broadside in the periphery. And you
could get very broad sided, like I was a few years

ago. Your whole personal life could crumble in an
instant. That’s me addressing my lack of seeing that
happening and seeing the warning signs of that
happening.

"Curtain Call"
Bernie Marsden
JB: "Curtain Call!" Well it seems like Kevin (Shirley) and I,

we always gotta give an obligatory tip of the hat to Zeppelin.
That’s just, you know, one of the things is when you’re writing songs based on the notion that you
can never, you might not be able, to play them live again. You know it’s like: that may have been
it, Milwaukee may have been it. The last time I played in front of people before this year was
Milwaukee in 2020. It was a good show and one of the things that kept me sane was: they always
say, you’re as good as your last show. Well, at this point, because we were pretty good. So, that

was me addressing the notion of the finality of my career, which could be still! This is not
obligatory. They can kick me out and take my guitar-license away at any point.

"The Loyal Kind"

JB: "The Loyal Kind" is a song I wrote with Bernie Marsden for “Royal Tea”. And we didn’t get to
it, because we had too many songs to cut for “Royal Tea” and we decided to leave it for the follow-

up. Because, again, we planed on making a two-record-set: “Royal Tea” and then whatever, turned
out to be “Time Clocks”. And I think "The Loyal Kind" is better on this record than it would have
been on “Royal Tea”. It was a bit redundant on that record. This one it sticks out more. And I think
having more experience and seeing it from a different perspective made this a lot more conscious
of making that song special.

“Hanging On A Loser”

JB: “Hanging On A Loser”, is a song I wrote with my friend Tom Hambridge. It aims to ask the
question: “If everything is so bad, then why [are you] hanging on a loser like me?” I just like the
way it rolls off the tongue, cause I want to say that so many times in my life, I can’t even tell you!
That bad? Why do you hanging around me? Says it all. Ain’t that the Blues?