Most of the tracks for "Box of Rocks" were recorded between April and October 2003 at Menabrate Studios in Layton, Utah. Neil's drum tracks were laid down in August 2003 at Spirit West Studios, Salt Lake City.

All lyrics and music for this disk were written by Coke Newell, as noted below in individual song entries. Most of this album was inspired by, and correlates with, the other material I was writing in that time period; namely, the short stories "Toaster Road" and "I Called Her Princess," and a book manuscript entitled "On the Road to Zion," which is now being peddled to national publishers. OTR2Z is the story of my spiritual quest in the mid 1970s, and its plenary theme is best represented here by the song "Being Here Now." ("Be Here Now" was a very popular and influential book first published in 1971, an exploration of Ameri-Tibetan Zen Consciousness. It was New Age before New Age had a clue.)

Coke Newell: Everything but the drums
Neil Johnson: The drums

Unusual instrumentation: all guitars on Can (But Don't Want To) are a Yamaha FG335 acoustic guitar sporting a DeArmond 240: the best in-the-hole humbucker ever made; percussion toward the end of Midnight Train includes a wooden box of little rocks.

or directly from Gallinipper Records by sending $10.00 + $1.80 S&H to
Coke Newell
2677 East Cherry Lane
Layton, UT 84040.