After walking the dogs through 20 years of clubs, canyons, and cold coffee, Hirshberg closes the book of poems, turns off the college radio station, stands up and writes and records a new batch of songs. 13 slices of 21st Century Nationwide Local Music.

Imagine a college radio show where the listeners are all sitting on a darkened greyhound bus, crossing the mountains and phoning in to discuss their anxieties and blessings - and their calls are transformed into songs in the spirit of Drive By Truckers, The Mountain Goats, Robert Hunter, and Jay Farrar. Songwriterly rock with folk, pop, reggae, country and blues influences.