Here is a link to "Motor City's Burning" by John Lee Hooker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBhaiJ5YNiM

I read in the ""Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker ..." that Hooker was home the weekend the riot started. I was reading the book back in 2000 when John Lee Hooker died. I visited the site where his house used to be. Here is a picture

http://www.paradisevalleyblues.com/tour/hook0050.html

I talked to the lady next door who used to baby sit his kids. She said that when he came home from tour, he would sit on his front porch and play the guitar. This would attract all the neighborhood kids and they would dance, act silly, and have a great time.

That image always stuck in my heard, so, I wrote the song from the perspective of someone sitting on their porch, playing their guitar.