Dan wrote Ain’t Got No Money after his sister, Rhonda, entered Outhouse Blues in a contest run by a local radio station in Orlando during which they played a 30-second snippet of the song. He describes a favorite and a staple in the family’s diet in Chicken ‘N’ Dumplin’s. During one of the last family get-togethers before his father passed away, Dan played on the guitar and created the song Chitlin’ Blues on the fly. The whole family remembers his father laughing and slapping his knees with joy. Ironically, that is one meal that Dan can not remember having as a youngster.

Dan and his brothers and sisters would frequently "go up the hill" to pick wild grape-plum fruits called Bullaces (Pickin’ Bullaces). When you live on a farm and grow most of the food that you will eat, getting ready for winter is very important. If you didn’t can it, you couldn't eat it. Shelling quantities of peas and beans was a fact of life. These times are the basis for Winter Time Blues.

One Drink at a Time is Dan's attempt to write a country song with some nostalgia for the times when he played drums in his father’s C&W band. This song closely resembles the country songs "back then" (about thirty to forty years ago). The River is a step into a "darker side". Dan finally snuck some humor into a song with You Don’t Even Know My Name in which he relates a shy man’s fantasy about a beautiful woman.

One Sunday evening when Dan and Carol were sitting on the porch thinking about going to work the next day, she noticed that Dan seemed a little down. She said he had the "Low-Down Porch-Bound Blues", and Dan took it from there. In the song Pay Your Dues, Dan tells his personal philosophy about choosing one path in life, good or bad