Peter and Chris, you are both being extrodinarily gracious. I think you should just do what you do-- write some songs, pick the good ones, and record them the way you see fit. If that ends up sounding like vintage DeeBs, well, I'm prepared to chalk it up to the overlap in personnel. If it doesn't, well, I'm sure it will be good, because I've been buying the records in the interim, and I like 'em.

But hell, its OK to sound like yourselves, and doing so and pushing the creativity envelope are by no means mutually exclusive.

Here's a good place for me to say the Mavericks record was on my top-10 of the '90s list. A classic.

Yes indeed. Peter and Chris are mighty gracious to expound on this new dB's expedition. If "World to Cry" is a starting point, it looks to be an incredibly worthwhile trip. Can't stop listening to that tune.
Good luck to you guys on the rest of this record!

And...uh...I would imagine that a guy who is quoting YODA (i think?) would admit to the appeal of new takes on the familiar....

Everyone's a fucking critic these days. Too bad the New Yorker ain't hiring. May the farce be with this guy.