In the folk tradition, I figure I will tell the boring stories of each of the songs I know. The types of stories I love to hear when going to see a concert.

I wrote "Highland Blues" shortly after taking a guitar workshop taught by a Mr. Tony McManus. He is really an excellent celtic style guitarist, and I leaned a few things from the workshop, which I suppose is why I went. Among the few things I remembered was a tuning he told us of, one that he uses to play bagpipe tunes in. I went home and tuned my guitar into this tuning: EAAEAE, put a capo on the 1st fret, and tried to remember the scale he told us works best in that tuning. The failed attempts at rememberance made it into the middle section of Highland Blues, I switch keys, from the proper scale to my almost "bluesy" one, and improvise a solo in it. The main section I wrote shortly after figuring out the proper bagpipe scale.