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Rewritten Song: You got nothing for me (version 2)

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This re-recording of the song I wrote and recorded in 2011 took approximately under 17 minutes. Proving the point that any song can be made into a three-quarter time ballad. Results may vary, but it can be done. And done quickly.

I think this probably actually is better than the original. But you be the judge. Your eye is so much more critical than my eye.

And then it was bedtime.

I’ll put together my new songs starting tomorrow. I have to do four to get caught up. Two are pretty much done and I just need to work them up on the guitar. Another one I’ve been thinking about for a few weeks. I’ve probably over-thought it at this point, but I’m still going to attempt it. Then I have to pull one more out of thin air. I usually like to reach for those type of songs near oak trees.

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Rewritten Song: 53 Weeks (version 2)

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Here’s the re-recorded version of the song I first wrote and recorded way back on March 7, 2011. Check out the original here. It’s not much of a departure, I guess. I’m just getting through some work tonight that I’ve been putting off for the past few weeks.

Still have a re-record of this tune to do.

And also four new songs to write from the past month of missing my weekly deadline. THIS is the week that I catch up and get back on track. (Probably that’s like someone saying, “THIS is the week I quit smoking!” or “THIS is the week that I dust off my figure skates and do that triple axel!”

It’s somewhere in between those two.

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Rewritten Song: If you won’t be mine this time (don’t think you’ll get another try) (version 2)

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Here’s the newly re-recorded version of the song I wrote this week back in 2011. It’s quite different than the original (which you can listen to here), but there’s something I really like about this one.

I’m not so sure what, though.

This is a tune that I’ve sung out so many times I can barely remember what it’s all about. It also made it on to an officially released record. That version is slightly different than the original, but still pretty close. Check it out here.

So maybe that’s why I like this new version. The old one just kinda seems boring to me now. It’s probably why I basically rewrote the entire song too. But maybe also because the original is a very close relative of the Bob Dylan song “If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Gotta Stay All Night). I almost admitted that in the original write up of this song. I alluded to “Lifting ideas from different places.” That’s what I meant by that. I didn’t use to tell anyone those type of things, but it’s how folk music works. Bob Dylan did it to Woody Guthrie, who did it to the Carter Family, who did it to the nameless and on and on in all different areas of music.

It happens. I’m okay with it.

Anyway…next up for this week is last week’s new song…which I have not written yet. But the snow and ice and slush have fallen and I’m not going anywhere for the night.

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Rewritten Song: I wouldn’t have to keep you on my mind (version 2)

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Well, geez…for someone who just can’t stand himself, I sure do write a whole lot of songs about myself. I think I know why that is, but I’m not going to get into that here or now. I’ll just start to try really hard to write a different type of song. I’ve got four chances the rest of this week while I play catch up for not posting new songs the past month.

We’ll see where I get to.

Now, this is the song I wrote this week way back in 2011. I sure had a lot to say about that one (read and listen here), even though the original version just doesn’t really say anything at all about anything at all.

It’s kinda about saying nothing.

This version isn’t a whole lot better, but at least it’s about saying something.

It’s probably much better to live saying what’s on your mind than holding that all in, right? That’s what this song is about I guess. I sure didn’t know that back in 2011, I guess. I’m not sure if I totally know it now either.

Anyway, it’s just a song and it doesn’t really mean anything at all.

I can tell you, though, that I heard Ramblin’ Jack Elliott singing “Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms” this afternoon and that’s what I used as the basic melody for this re-recording. Ramblin’ Jack’s version of that tune is my favorite. It’s what got me seriously started playing guitar and singing. Ramblin’ Jack Elliott does that to a whole lot of people.

Now…I’ve got four new songs to write. Enough of talking about old songs.

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Rewritten Song: No other way forward (version 2)

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Okay. I had this idea for this re-record for a while. Just getting around to it this week. So what.

Here’s the idea: Do some key changes in this song.

I thought it’d fit and work well. I thought it’d be so easy to figure out. Really shows my inexperience and lack of ability. Anyway, it’s done and I think it turned out. Entertains me, at least. Probably for different reasons than it entertains you.

Be sure to listen to the original as a comparison. Just click here.

Tomorrow I re-record this tune from 2011. Then I’m all caught up on re-recordings and I hit the hardwood on writing 4 songs the rest of the week to get all caught up on new songs. Think any of them will be good?

Also, notice the new links to share these songs around on the internet. Feel free to use those, okay? I’ll be adding some more new things like that in the near future, plus you’ll start to read more about how I’m getting a new website together. But don’t worry about that. It’s more an exercise in…”Can I build a website from scratch?”…than an exercise in anything else.