"Our Summer of Song" is about Timothy Jones Jr. recounting his summer traveling with a circus and his mom Emily Walker who was pregnant at 14 years old. She's 21 now and dreams of being a musician and escaping her small town Port Angeles, Washington. Then, the summer before Timmy starts school and just as Emily is about to join the work force a man named Dalton, a musician turned music promoter who smokes too many cigarettes and is always drunk, convinces her to join the circus as the opening act for a band called Fever Dog which Dalton says is suppose to be the next Led Zeppelin.
—Dennis