This was a discovery for me, which began after I was referred to this guy from Ben Harper's website. By the way, check out Ben and Jack's live rendition of Bob Marley's "High Tide or Low Tide" which is unfortunately available only somewhere on the Web at 128 kbps... couldn't they put it out somewhere in higher quality or even on some compilation CD? Come on guys! Anyway, half of the songs here are great musically and almost all of them are pretty much OK lyrically... sometimes Jack slips a bit but that's understandable. After all he is certainly no Shakespeare... let's say he's more like Dumas but only if Dumas lived in Hawaii and surfed instead of writing historic novels.