To be released 2007:

The Living Moment
 This CD was recorded live with all the smoke and energies of blues clubs we found ourselves in. A live gig always brings unpredictable moments of every description, moments in which life suddenly appears incandescent, musically and otherwise.
 Take the fierce thunderstorm and broken windshield wiper which delayed the band for one gig, which became the moment for Tail Dragger to voice We Sorry (No. 8). As he tells Rob Lorenz, who wanted “to keep on drivin’ in the rain,” “You ain’t gonna kill me this a way.”
 Or take “Feelin’ Lucky Boogie,” whose title comes from the realization in the middle of the instrumental, as I was about to tell the audience to put their hands together for guitarists Minoru and Rockin’ Johnny, that we were in the midst of a full moon, on Friday the 13th, during the millennium. Oh yeah, feelin’ lucky indeed! Then I look over to see Rob Lorenz, a drummer’s drummer if there ever was one, standing at his kit, smoking a cigar, completely in the groove. And that all poured into the song.
 The living moment is not simply the music, but the mojo that suddenly manifests on any given gig. Like the time a few years back we were playing outside, under a kind of pagoda, when....