SNAP, CRACKLE, POP
"I just put some album pops during the silent spaces between the [songs] 'cause it was what used to happen; you'd hear it on vinyl that way," Cope says. "The album pays tribute to when records were records, not just one song, but a whole album."
CHARM CITY CONNECTIONS
"I used to come to Baltimore a lot. I used to buy and sell tickets at concert and sporting events in my teens and early 20s," Cope says. "I worked Oriole games. So you'd meet different characters doing that. It's like a subculture. And that guy George, the Pimlico pony player, in "200,000 (In Counterfeit 50 Dollar Bills)" [from Cope's self-titled disc] was an actual person. The song is about the time I asked him how much money he had. [Laughs]"