I was heading down to Pinnacles National Monument one day, thinking about how San Jose and the South Bay in general wasn't doing me any good. I thought how I'd like to move to another part of the Bay Area, but I couldn't afford it. Also, there are so many old blue songs with references to places in the south, I wanted to create lyrics that had meaning in the dry west but remained true to the blues roots: hence "where the condor builds his nest" in the Gavilan mountains.
