Today’s featured track is Diamond Tears. An estranged father, blind drunk, pines for his lost children before picking a fight with his own reflection. This song fades on a lengthy pedal steel solo, like all such laments should. What you hear here is the one and only take. I think it’s miraculous. When I asked BJ Cole for another attempt to give us options in the mix, he looked me straight in the eye and said ‘No, I think you’ve got what you need.’ I admire the man’s confidence.