Well, here’s another new song that’s a make-up for not posting a new song the week of February 18.
This one is partially inspired by my two kids, Gus and Della. And partially inspired by the game Duck on a Rock.
I was thinking about both and so I just jammed them together. And then I added some background noise. I wonder if anyone can guess what all the sounds are?
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.
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.
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.
Here’s a song I wrote last night really late. Kept me up when I shoulda been fast asleep. Maybe I shoulda tried harder to shut my eyes. Oh well. This is what you get.
It’s in drop-d tuning and it’s vaguely like the old time song “Handsome Molly.” I even lifted some elements from that song and rewrote them a bit. I’ve done that about a million times. To Handsome Molly, and to so many other tunes too. It’s what I do. It’s just folk music. Pretty simple stuff.
Now I am going to bed tonight. This tune was the new song make up for the new song that I didn’t write the week of February 11, which means I’m almost all caught up. Just need to write a new tune for last week…and then, of course, one for this week and re-recorded the song I wrote this week in 2011.
So, in reality…no rest for me. Which is a good thing when you’re trying to write songs. The more you do it, the more songs you write, and the more songs you write, the more good songs you write.
Now, of course, it’s a lot of work, and not a whole lot of rest. The easiest thing to do is sit back and eat a whole bag of Cheetos. Or spend time looking up exactly how to spell Cheetos.
Either way you wake up the next morning with a full stomach, right?
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