“Maple Place”: This is one of the few songs that I’ve written based on my own personal experiences growing up. It’s meant to invoke memories of being a kid, when life was simple, when the biggest problem you had was falling off your bike or not having a ball to play with. We were so much smarter then. “Tulsa Heat”: Written from the perspective of the African American teenager, Dick Rowland, who was accused of assaulting a white woman in Tulsa Oklahoma in 1921. Consequently, rumors...