From the liner notes by Joe Henry: It took me nearly a full year to persuade the man into my basement studio, since he's long ago sworn off formal recording. But Mose [Allison] is a gentleman and a soft touch -- and I, like a dog with an old shoe, had an idea I wouldn't let go of. After having spent four days in his company at a festival in Germany in the late summer of 2008, I became fairly obsessed with the notion that Mose, at 82, might yet have something more to tell us. And so I embarked on an old-fashioned letter writing campaign by way of lobbying his participation, but with a modern twist: I would email his patient, dear wife Audre, and she would print out my rambling text for Mose to read between tour runs and the late innings of baseball games.... But though he may have been init