The album starts with Moon, a beautiful song about a street,    performer in Syracuse, Eli, who's nick name was Moon when he was in the Marine Corps. Featuring piano and back-up harmonies by Latrenda Carswell, who also sings back-up on the next song.

The second song is the title song Cayuga County Crow Convention, about the ominous residents of Auburn, NY, played to the band's funky jam with harp, and clav and horns including sax with guest Cato Eaton.

The same guy who wrote 'I'm Not Pointing My Finger At You,' with an adult's perspective sings a heartfelt song about love's blissful journey, from romance to the doorstep of parenthood, in the third song entitled My Time With You. It is played with celtic sounds by members of Ithaca's Tranoach adding penny-whistle, concertina, and african kora, plus Grammy-Award Winning Celloist Hank Roberts, as special guests.

The same Celtic instruments, along with the Catalan Gralla, and the Bazuki, move into a slow dreamscape that is the intro to The Silence. The fiddle by Joe Davoli kicks into a kind of Irish Jigg, as Jamie sings about mankind's need for the peace and euforia of a rare thing in today's world; Silence

The 5th song is a Beatlesque Rocker called Christian Mind, the last word in the argument to the religious fanatic who misuses the good word to manipulate and control others, in this case, their partner.

The Deet Deet song, is a hilarious song about the voice of our generation, the computers and machines that speak to us with an array of 'deets' and 'beeps.' All of the actual sounds of these things come to life as the instruments.

I Don't Want To Be A Part Of That is a deeply personal piano ballad about one's disillusionment with the fake world of the music business, and the talent less leeches who suck the life out of it.

Life Is is a grand finale with full big band horn section, New Orleans piano, and lyrics that attemp to sum up the meaning of Life while addressing man's struggle in vain to see the face of God through Science, Philosophy, Physics, etc.

And, if the previous song is about Life, then this Bonus Cut is a seductive waltz with Death. The Endless Waltz is sung in a style reminiscent of Leonard Cohen, with a slow Tango piano, serious tuba, and trumpet solo by Tom Witckowsky, and the hunting voice of Ashley Cox. This dark song was written as a movie soundtrack for the film called "My Wife and My Dead Wife," about a man who falls romantically entranced by a ghost who beckons him to join her in Death. Concept and contributing lyrics by Sam Miserendino. 

"This album does not, however, address today's political problems that I so often worn of in previous recordings. We are saturated by these things and it has all come to pass. Many people saw this coming, the environmental plight, corporate corruption and greed, hypocrisy, and war. Perhaps the answer is not in the TV, but in the silence of meditation, compassion ,in nature and all of it's creation.      "

Many people have told me that they keep the CD (20th Century) in their player for months at a time. I hope you'll like this one as much if not more.