With Wichita Woman I decided to explore what would happen if a woman had a spiritual awakening via UFO contact and how it would affect her partner.

When I was working as a psychic medium, I often had female clients who had partners that didn’t understand all of the metaphysical and spiritual stuff they were into. In most cases their partners felt a bit alienated from them. I imagined what would happen if a partner had their own experience.

I came up with the main riff for the verse on a three-string cigar box guitar. In fact, the whole song is played with three strings. As soon as I had that riff, I thought of the old 70’s song Wichita Lineman. And because I wanted the song to be about a woman, it became Wichita Woman.

The break pays homage to the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind complete with musical communication from the UFO.