Sue wrote this about her father, and I desperately wanted to put it to music. I'd like to nudge a few of the words a bit to make it easier to sing. I was amazed at the chord progression that presented itself as I read the words. I've asked around, and the musicologists at FAWM can't [...]
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Terry is becoming quite a lyricist. He shared these with me and let me put them to music. Listen to 'Letters You Never Read' Letters you Never Read Verse 1 Chorus Especially proud of this one. I conceived the a capella intro two weeks ago, recorded it, and then got nothing for almost two weeks. I didn't know what the song was supposed to be about, except in broad general terms. Then, instead of trying to describe the entirety of our travel in Canada, I chose a single [...] I'm working on my piano playing, just not very much. These two experiments with chord progressions and melody reminded me that I don't practice the piano much. I thought it would be fair to share all the stuff I wrote, not just the ones I'm happy with. Listen to 'From the Top' Listen to [...] The past few years I've written a handful of songs with our daughter Rachelle. This year we did something experimental; I just played a chord progression on the guitar and sent it to her, and she just improvised some lyrics over it and sent it back. I decided it needed some harmony so I sang some [...] Finished another song; this on a collaboration with Terry 'Pegleg' Wilson. Terry wrote a bass line and then started talking about a time in his life when he was driving from an old life that wasn't doing him any good to a new job in a new place. Sue took notes as he was talking, and [...] Sue thought the last line of that post should be a song, so now it is. I intentionally made it sound like an old record. First time I've recorded a song on the ukulele. Listen to '3 Week Itch' Lyrics: Chatting with Elisabeth Beucher, a friend who lives in Paris, I discovered she's a poet. Of course, I immediately asked if she'd share a poem I could put to music. She chose well, and we're both delighted with the U2/trance feeling of it. She said I pronounced all the words correctly. Since I don't speak French, I'm [...] Sometimes I have chords and a melody but the words, the subject of the song, won't surface. I usually ask Sue to listen and tell me what she feels. I'm still surprised when, five seconds in, she turns and tells me exactly what I was thinking but couldn't put into words. One of the best parts of [...] It's February, which means February Album Writing Month. During the next 27 days I'll be writing (and almost certainly recording) 14 brand new songs. (FAWM lasts 28 days, but we're traveling on the 28th.) I haven't been feeling well, so I certainly wasn't planning on staying up 'til the official kickoff at midnight. Sue, on the other [...] |
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