Jennifer and I originally recorded this album for a small independent label in Connecticut, Green Linnet Records. Anyone who has the original, don't show it around!! Elektra, (Tommy Lipuma) heard it after I gave it to some songwriter I met at a USO benefit, I was dancing, he was working for Tommy. Elektra rereleased it with new art, and helped us out on our first national tour as the Story. I think mostly the idea was to lay some groundwork for the album that would follow. Grace in Gravity is a collection of some of the first songs I ever wrote, back to college days. "Love is more Thicker than Forget" was my first song -- a college asssignment --. We were to take the words of an e.e. cummings poem and set them to music. enough said. It's still one of the oddest favorite songs. "Always" was also one of the first, and "Over Oceans" -- that collegiate angst and longing. I think we didn't sleep for the whole month that we were making the record. We Were all such newcomers to the process. So we put a futon down in the studio and took turns napping when we couldn't make it through the final mix week. I remember Coleman Rogers got MVP because he probably got the least sleep of all -- he was the only one at that point who knew how to make everything work! I also remember, I hadn't figured out yet how to play with a pick and mute the strings at the same time. So Coleman held his finger over the strings of my guitar at the saddle for the whole of "Perfect Crime" . I still can't quite get that good a sound. And that's why he's credited with "saddle finger" in the liner notes.