Produced by T-Bone Burnett. Features Blue Glass Fall, Reunion, Apartment, Moon. Sim Cain, drums; John Abbey, bass.

This is the album that started it all for David Poe: exuberant but more often hushed, darkly comic, and always ambitious.

Songs like Reunion and Moon showed a young songwriter with a flair for storytelling and imagery., The single

Produced by T-Bone Burnett. Features Blue Glass Fall, Reunion, Apartment, Moon. Sim Cain, drums; John Abbey, bass.

This is the album that started it all for David Poe: exuberant but more often hushed, darkly comic, and always ambitious.

Songs like Reunion and Moon showed a young songwriter with a flair for storytelling and imagery., The single Blue Glass Fall was played by responsible radio outlets around the world, taking David along with it.

Also notable in this set are contributions by guest guitarist Marc Ribot on Apartment and The Settlement, and the always-exquisite playing of bassist John Abbey and drummer Sim Cain, who Poe often introduced onstage as "the greatest drummer in the world," and meant it.

An in-demand percussionist who had already played with everyone from Henry Rollins to The Chocolate Genius, Sim became a colleague, friend, producer and mentor while Poe served as sound engineer at CBGB's 313 Gallery, the songwriter/spoken word/avant-garde/hip-hop joint adjacent to the venerated punk rock club on the Bowery in Manhattan. On guitar and drums Cain and Poe played around New York as a duo, dubbing themselves "The Christ Brothers." Within a year, then-bearded, long-haired John Abbey -- "a dead ringer for Him," Poe exclaimed -- joined the group and a clutch of recordings made their way into the clutches of the large, pink Sony Music building, who signed David to a major recording contract.

"David Poe gives the singer-songwriter genre a much-needed jolt," wrote Rolling Stone of his debut. "Call him The Untroubadour."