Claude says:Adams made this with Glyn Johns after dissolving the Cardinals and stepping back from music for two years, wrestling with hearing issues and the death of his bassist — a record he described as passing through his own life as a ghost, looking at California and the idea of being lost and found at the same time. You picked it up a year after release in late 2012 and burned through the title track, "Chains of Love," and both versions of "Dirty Rain" in a single concentrated month before moving on.