It’s time again for Talkin’ Headline Tuesday, friends. Here’s the new version. All the lines have been taken verbatim from cnn.com. You don’t even really need to read any news at all ever again. Just come here every Tuesday and listen to a recap.
For this version I decided to sing all the lines instead of talk them. So it’s a bit different, but mostly it’s exactly the same.
Here it is, folks. The first new song released in the new year. This one I wrote last week on Wednesday night. Came pretty easily. Had an idea instantly. The form and pattern of the song developed out of all the other songs I’ve written the past few weeks and months. Same for the words. Then the repeating chorus came through. All in about, say, 10 minutes or so. Then I worked out 3 more verses and an ending and I had a complete song in about an hour.
That’s how it goes writing a folk song. And this sure is a big ol’ folk song. With a capital “F.”
Anyway, I feel like it’s a good song to start off the new year. Get’s me headed in some direction at least. Now I’m barreling down on the curves of the road.
Remember. Tomorrow (and every Tuesday for the rest of the year) is Talkin’ Headline Tuesday and then two days later is Replay Thursday. You don’t wanna miss that. So you gotta come back often and listen.
See ya.
It’s Replay Thursday (renamed from Repost Thursday, because “replay” sounds better). The song I wrote, recorded and released this week last year was “Out in the Cold Cold Wind,” which ended up on my album, “It’s Chicago!” which you can go buy in iTunes or over at CDBaby.
The original version, which is basically exactly the same as the album version and which you can listen to here, was in 3/4 time and I wrote it on one of those absolutely frigid Chicago nights. Was a beautiful night actually. A lovely, post-Christmas, pre-New Year night. A nice, slow, easy-paced night. That’s how I wrote the song, that’s how I sung it too.
This new version is a bit hotter. It’s hotter outside today. It’s gonna be 60 degrees tomorrow to send out 2010. This new one moves. It’s a lot like my other song from a few months back “I ain’t gonna be returnin that-a-way.” Well, actually, it doesn’t sound anything like that version of that song. But I play “Ain’t returnin” different for different occasions and this new version of “Cold Cold Wind” sounds like a different version of “Ain’t returnin.”
Okay. That’s it. Soon it’ll be 2011. See ya there.
It’s Talkin’ Headline Tuesday again, folks. Here’s the new version. All the lines come from cnn.com.
Here we go. The last song of 2010. This one, I think, is purely for my own enjoyment. Maybe for someone else. Maybe. I wrote it on the 23rd. Finished it on the 24th. Ain’t no Christmas song. More like a Thanksgiving song, I suppose.
It’s inspired by a certain someone. Thanks, Certain Someone.
Anyway. It’s a pretty typical blues tune. Actually, it’s almost exactly the same melody and guitar part as the song “Leavin’ You” (originally titled “Oh mama, don’t you make me”) that I wrote back in July. You can hear that song here.
So that’s that for 2010.
Well, not really. I’ll write and post a new version of Talkin’ Headline tomorrow and re-record a new version of the song I wrote one year ago this week (Out in the Cold Cold Wind) on Thursday. And, of course, the new song I write that I post of January 3rd could possibly still be written in 2010. But, apart from those, 2010 is up.
Let’s take a look back, huh?
All in all I wrote and posted 48 new songs. This includes all the songs I posted brand new on a Monday (or later in the week if I missed my deadline) and any additional songs I wrote and posted (if more than 2 in a week). Also in there are the 6 versions of Talkin’ Headline that I posted. (I actually wrote 7, but only recorded and posted 6, so I won’t count that one, which is now irrelevant because its full of old news.) It doesn’t include any re-recorded material that was written in a previous year or any songs I wrote but didn’t record for one reason or another.
Not bad. 48 newly published songs. That’s almost one for every week of the year. I went from January 4, 2010 until February 15 really strong. Didn’t miss a day. Didn’t miss a beat. A lot of the songs I wrote in this period made it onto one or the other of my two albums.
Then I hit a rough patch. I remember it well. I wasn’t writing. I was just waiting around for songs to come. That ain’t a good idea. Ever.
I finally picked it back up the week of April 28. Seems I recorded 2 songs that day. And then didn’t miss a week of posting a new song for the rest of the year (expect for the week of July 26 when I was busy getting my two albums to the production line and getting everything finalized for the release of both).
Anyway. I kinda fell into a groove. It got really easy to just churn out a song. So I started doing a couple different things. I tried writing a song every day of the week (that was hard), I wrote one new verse each day for a song and recorded each verse on a different instrument (that was fun), and I did a whole week of new talkin’ blues songs each day based on headlines on cnn.com (that was mind-numbing).
For 2011 I’ll take a few of those ideas and keep at them. I’m sure I’ll come up with a few others, though. I’m also planning to record and release another album with songs from the past year. (there are probably 5 to 7 that I think will definitely make it, can you guess which ones?) That’ll hopefully happen by March sometime, but I haven’t thought about it too much.
Mostly I’ll be trying to get out and play some of these 2010 songs. So I’ll see ya around.
Here’s to the new year a-comin down.
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