Wrote this song on Saturday over the weekend. It’s a long one. Over seven minutes. Can you make it the whole way through?

I’ll tell you some background about it to help you out.

It’s loosely based on Bob Dylan’s tune “Maggie’s Farm.” Very loosely. Pretty much just the sentiment of that song (other than some of the words in the first verse), which is basically not wanting to get tied down to repetitive, uninteresting tasks. To divorce yourself from that which bores you no matter what everyone else says or thinks you should do or wants you to do or knows you should do.

Speaking of that…the Barehand Jugband is rollin on into the Double Door on Tuesday the 3rd for a show with the Hoyle Brothers and the Shams Band. You should come check that out if you’ve never seen the band before.

In other news…this week I’ll start posting re-recorded versions of tunes from 2010 again. Last year I took a couple months off from writing and recording, although, not intentionally. But this is the point where I picked it up again and then haven’t missed another week (except for one in August) since. So look for that on Thursday and Friday.

I wrote this new one yesterday after reading an article on a botched U.S. military bombing in Afghanistan. Basically the military (meaning 2 guys sitting in a video room in Nevada controlling a drone 4,000 miles away) targeted a group of civilians and mistook them for insurgents and blistered their cars with helicopter bullets and missiles. A bunch of them died. The families of the innocent dead were given 48 hundred dollars as compensation. That’s tax money right there. I’d be willing to give a little more, though, wouldn’t you? And I’d be willing to spend some of my cash to court marshall those responsible.

But anyway, that ain’t up to me. And that’s only how the song started.

It quickly moved away from any kind of political-ridiculous song. And I like where it went. It’s kinda a blues-type-thing. I recorded it in one take, so there’s a couple mistakes in there and after I recorded it I made a few minor edits to a few of the lines just to clean up the phrasing. But what you hear is the basic outline for the song, which I’m gonna start playing out soon.

Speaking of that…I have a show coming up on May 15 at Uncommon Ground in Wrigleyville. It’ll be a hot one. Jonas Friddle from the Barehand Jugband is doing a solo set too. And Indignation Jones is also playing. I go on at 7 and play for 45 minutes.

The jugband’s also got a big show at Double Door coming up on Tuesday, May 3. We’ll be strutting around the stage and dripping sweat. It’s only 5 bucks to get in and the Hoyle Brothers and Shams Band are playing too. Come check it out. Starts at 9pm.

Here’s the new song for this week. Was a little behind due to a family emergency that sent me to the ER over the weekend. So this song I wrote on Monday night and recorded last night.

I knew everyone in the world would be on the edge of their seats with no Monday song. So I didn’t want to just skip out on the entire week.

Anyway…I can’t quite put my finger on this one. Is it any good, or does it need one more element (like a shift somewhere to tie everything together), or is it just another addition to my growing pile of 2 minute love tunes.

How about some audience participation on this one? Let me know what you think. Or at least let me know that you’re out there….