Album Notes

These elven songs on "Nothing But the Blues" are compiled from
two earlier works by Fats......"Concepts and Fragments" and
"Wasteland". Performed in Churches, Christian Coffeehouse
and at festivals Coast to Coast, and border to border, these songs demonstrate
Fats ability to put story to song, as well as his powerful vocal delivery and his varied gutiar styles.

"Slow Train to Hell", is Fats most commerically successful song. Co-written in Nashville with friend Mark Forrest, "Slow Train To Hell" was at one time the number one Blues song at MP3.com and receives airplay, on Christian and Blues radio stations.

"Glory Bound" an eerie electric blues song written by Fats
expresses his peace with the knowledge he was not long for this world.

"Psychichotline.com" was inspired by a Saturday night live style skit devised on a fun family night, by Fat's daughter Ruby and Goddaughter Christa. The skit making fun of tv psychics and what could happen if you really put faith in them was very funny, and Fats adapted and preserved their skit with this song.


Missing from the credits on this CD is track number 5 "Trinity"(follows "Slow Train") a poetic acoustic
song exploring the mystry of the Trinity.

"You Reap Just What You Sow", was one of Fats favorite original tunes and is designated as the title song of
the Peter Thorpe Memorial Fund's compilation volume II.
A CD that is currently in development.

Sales from this CD allows the Peter Thorpe Memorial Fund
to offer assistance to
indie artists. Many songwriters, guitar players and bands
have recieved assistance in the form of meals, grocries and gas from the Peter Thorpe Memorial Fund.

PTMF also provides inmates with music by Fats and others, including cdbaby artists; Steve Rupe, Michael Quest, Gary
Meggs, General Gypsy Carns, John Called Mark, and Kathy Bell, as well as Christian Blues artists Glenn Kaiser and
Tommy Ray O'Dell. Hohner harmonicas and lessons by Fats
are also available to the incarcerated.


For more information on The Peter Thorpe Memorial Fund
http://www.ptmf.org