The album switches emotions with the upbeat “The Way You Look Tonight” from the film Swing Time.  Many artists have covered this standard, and it’s a great song for capturing that moment of bliss a lover feels “just thinking of you / and the way you look tonight.” The harmonica and Brad Terry’s clarinet lead the way on the instrumental “Rag for Madi,” which must have been created before the troubles began. “Playin’” is an original about the joys of playing music on street corners. Jean Baptiste Bocle’s Hammond B3 organ and Galison’s guitar blend well together as Peyroux belts the lyrics out.

The final song without Peyroux is “Shoulda Known.” Galison sings a retelling of “The Tale of the Frog and Scorpion” and gives it a swamp blues feel. Carly Simon is billed on the packaging as “the scorpion,” but she only sings one lyric rather than the whole part. After the fable, Galison drops the pretense and tells his story. “I met her downtown in a Bleecker Street bar / serenading some drunks for the tips in a jar / I knew her reputation through the old grapevine / but she sounded so sweet and she looked so fine.” Much like that ill-fated frog all Galison’s friends “can say is shoulda known” when it doesn't work out.

On “Heaven to Me” they return to that classic sound of softly strummed guitar, brushes, and Galison on harmonica. It’s a marvelous song about appreciating what you have, perfect for dancing with the one you love, looking into their eyes, and communicating everything with just a smile. The album closes out with their duet on “Heaven Help Us All,” an uplifting gospel-tinged number first sung by Stevie Wonder. Galison wrote an extra verse after 9/11 about “the innocents who's final hour it is” and “the angry men who take their lives with his.”

I hesitate recommending the album only because I am not sure what if any outcome to the legal entanglements has occurred, but issues between the artists aside, there’s no denying their talents mesh well together on Got You On My Mind. It’s intriguing to listen to their brief relationship revealed through songs because this project was started before their union ended.