I’m going to retrace my steps for a minute.  Ages ago, I lived in a rundown Hollywood apartment complex.  My neighbor was a struggling actor named Sam.  He became one of maybe three people who knew I wrote songs.  I was far from pursuing a career in music.  It was a hobby, the kind of hobby no one knows is your hobby.  Anyway, one night Sam came over with a cheap mic he’d bought at Guitar Center and encouraged me to record.  I set up in my bathroom that weekend and recorded four songs.  I think he made this ‘album cover’ in iTunes to subtly push me closer to believing bigger things were possible.  I love Sam for that.  Years later, one of the songs (45) Fortyfive became what I think is the best song on the first Bootstraps album.