Wrote this new one last week on Wednesday. I was trying to go for something different than what I’ve been putting out the past few weeks. I think it started out that way, some sort of Gospel tune, but it ended up where I been.
Good thing I’m fine with that. It’s where I’m headed anyway, right?
Probably, I shoulda written some sort of Woody Guthrie-inspired Labor song for today, but I just didn’t have that in me. Not a whole lotta folks do these days. Everyone’s just working so hard to get by and by.
And, again, here they are, all the relevant headlines from cnn.com.
I read somewhere recently that this time of August was supposed to be a slow news cycle because Congress is out of session. So, basically that means this is the time when the media manufactures news.
That’s just what I read somewhere. But I guess that implies that the media can control the weather, right?
Anyway, the Barehand Jugband is at the Hideout tonight for our monthly show. We get going around 9pm and keep up the heat until early the next morning. Come on out, it’s only 5 dollars.
August sure is a long month, huh? Anyway, here’s the new song for this week. This one I wrote and recorded last night. It’s kinda got a country song feel to it, I think. It’s also one of those songs, where, after I started in on it, it was really easy to write. That’s not saying that it took 5 minutes, or anything like that, but the vision for the song just became clear after I wrote the first line.
Knew just where it was headed and just about how I was gonna get there.
Really though, I think it was bouncing around in my head all week. Was reading this book about taming and domesticating zebras, and found out that you just can’t get a lasso around them no matter how hard you try. Anyway, that had some effect, I think.
And then, yesterday, a line popped up into my head from Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. It’s right near the beginning, right near the start. Know it?
So that helped too. Once I started in on the song those two ideas just kept coming up.
So here’s the new re-recording of “Some Ordinary Troubles.” You can see from the description of the original (read and listen here) that this was kind of a throw-away song. So I knew going into the re-record I had to do right by it. Make it into something.
I think it’s a little more of a complete song now. Definitely something I might be persuaded to sing out from time to time.
I didn’t change too much, though. It’s in the same key. It’s still kind of a blues-type tune. (Although, it’s a little more folk-song-oriented, I’ll admit that.) All the words are the same, for the most part, except for the last verse, which is new. I needed one more to kinda round-out the layout of the song.
So there ya have it. I think this new one sounds very 2011, if ya know what I mean. And the one from last year sounds very last year. If you’ve been listening that long you probably picked that up, though.
Now, please remember that I have two shows this weekend….
Music Vomit 