Here’s the new song for today. Can you tell I struggled to write one this week? Anyway, that’s it for today.
Tonight, though, I have a show at Lillstreet Art Center from 6-10pm during the First Friday event (and also during the Annual Holiday Open House at the same time). It’s FREE! I’ll have some CDs available and’ll be doing some new songs. Go ahead, drop by. I’ll be on the third floor singing my hearts out.
Hey Hey! A new Talkin’ Headline! How about that?!
I haven’t felt in a while that one of these has been successful in any way other than making a jab at the news headlines in a sideways-type of glance to the person sitting way over there.
But this one. Well, I think it’s either the really strong tea I drank last night that’s still up in my head or the headlines fell in the right places on the right day. I think it kinda works on some whole other level. I have no idea what that is, though. It just feels like that.
Maybe you’d like to share your thoughts on these headlines and this song?
And, remember, that I have a show this week on Friday night (12/2). I’m playing at Lillstreet Art Center from 6-10pm during the First Friday event (and also during the Annual Holiday Open House at the same time). It’s FREE! I’ll have some CDs available. Go ahead, drop by.
Here’s the re-recording of last song I posted in November in 2010. I didn’t really say too much about this one in the original post (read and listen to the original here), so it’s hard to know what this one is about.
It’s probably about something different now anyway. A whole year does that to things.
I didn’t do too much to the song. Or, I guess I rearranged the words a bit. And, I used an old trick of mine (that I haven’t used for a while): Making a song sound new by changing it into 3/4 time. I used to do that all the time. For these re-recordings and on-the-fly at live shows. Not so much anymore.
I think this new one is pretty successful, though. Gets its point across. Does it in a semi-interesting way.
So there. Take it, or leave it.
Did you know that I have a show this week? On Friday night (12/2)? I’m playing at Lillstreet Art Center from 6-10pm during the First Friday event (and also during the Annual Holiday Open House at the same time). It’s FREE! I’ll have some CDs available. Go ahead, drop by.
Okay, well, here’s the new song for this week. Got it done at the very last minute, last night. It’s not a totally new song cause I been thinking about it for a while and cause it’s inspired by the Woody Guthrie song, This Train Is Bound For Glory.
I’ve been trying to write this one, or at least thinking about what I’d do for it for some time. It’s a commission (of sorts) by a friend who owns and operates the La Adelita food truck in Chicago. He thought it’d be great to do a song about all the crazy rules and regulations and laws heaped up on the shoulders of all the new trucks popping up around the city.
I wasn’t quite sure about writing a song like that. Mainly cause I haven’t done a song like that in a long time. If it was 3 or 4 years ago I probably coulda written it the day I got asked. And probably woulda done it in the talkin’ blues style like I was asked. But I’m just not as practiced at that anymore. (The Talkin’ Headline Blues are a whole other thing since I don’t really actually write any of those. I just organize them.)
Anyway. I didn’t have a song for this week and I had come up with the idea of a food truck song based around This Train Is Bound For Glory on Monday or Tuesday this week. So I sat down and tried to hammer it out.
I think it turned out okay. It’s definitely not done yet. This is a total draft. I didn’t even use microphones, just sang and played straight into my computer mic (so, sorry for the low quality).
Also, after I recorded it I changed the “This truck is bound for glory” verse. It now goes like this (I was too tired to try and re-record it, plus I think this recording gets across the right tempo and feel that I want for the song):
This truck is bound for Glory, this truck
This truck is bound for Glory, this truck
This truck is bound for Glory
Only carries what’s done wholey (holy)
This truck is bound for Glory, this truck
This works better in the rhythm of the song, I think. Do you understand this verse? The parenthetical is there to lead you on, it’s not meant to be sung.
Okay, well, I think that’s it. There also has been talk of a video that may eventually be associated with this song. I’ve got an idea about that, but I’m not willing to share it. You’ll have to wait and see.
Keep on truckin’….
Here’s the new version of the song I recorded this week, last year. If you want to compare this new version to the old one, you can listen to the original here and also read a somewhat lengthy description of what the song is all about and where it came from.
I still gotta get the new song written for this week. I’m running right up against my deadline, but I’m sure I’ll have something tomorrow, so be sure to check back.
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