We actually recorded this album twice. The first time it was called "Supernatural Corner", which was appropriate because we both lived in this house on Wash. DC's Logan Circle.  D.C. is full of circles, and negotiating them can be a truly supernatural experience. In the middle of the circle named in 1930 for John A. Logan, a Civil War general who once lived at #8 (Gil and I lived at #1), was a huge statue of Logan atop a valiant steed; it seems that during the 1860's the then open field where the statue stands was used as a kind of "executioner's square" where spies and deserters were hanged. All that energy was somehow contained (or not) within that circle, and it affected us. In fact, there was a painting on my wall and the red paint used to run down the wall! I have witnesses! Somehow by the time we went into the studio to do our first album as producers, we had the idea of "Supernatural Corner". We wanted it to be a musical on wax.

There were monologues between each tune, with eerie music behind it. It was like being on the inside of the protagonist's head. The protagonist was a Vietnam vet who found his life more messed up than when he left. By the time the album was finished, you had a picture of how this brother lost it and ended up a prisoner inside his own mind. At the end, you realize his whole narrative takes place as he tells his story in a mental institution.

We had done all the tracks ourselves in a great sixteen track studio in Silver Spring Maryland run by Jose Williams; just me on Rhodes electric piano and bass and acoustic piano, and Gil. But as we listened to it, it seemed a little empty - and a bit maudlin as well. We decided to call our Lincoln University buddies, Danny Bowens and Bob Adams to help fill out the sound and give it a more live feel. We ended up taking out all the monologues, and doing "H2Ogate Blues". We thought Mr. "Law and Order" getting busted was true irony. And even as the Watergate scandal was just the tip of the iceberg, how could you look at Richard Nixon saying, "I am not a criminal" with a straight face?