Here’s the 42nd installment of my collection of headlines from CNN.com. Like all the rest, it’s easily forgotten by the next week (and more likely by the next day or the next hour or minute).
Anyway, have a listen….
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New Song: I Spent the Whole Morning
Wrote this one yesterday. I think it’s basically almost already a fully-formed song. Probably needs some mouth harp in there somewhere. And there’re a couple phrases that I’ll probably clean up. But I’d say this one’s ready.
What do you think?
Hey, also, did you know that I have two shows this weekend?
On Friday playing a benefit for the Building Stage. It’s called “Terror and Cowboy Songs.” Only 5 bucks to get in and it seems like it’ll be pretty crazy. Come check it out. I go on at 10pm (or soon after 10pm) and play for about an hour. The facebook invite has some more info for ya.
Then on Saturday afternoon from 2-3pm I’ll be at the Hideout as part of the Urban Folk Circuit. Swing on by and have a beer and buy some DIY wares. Here’s the facebook event with more on the market. This one is FREE.
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It’s Too Hard To Make You Agree (Version 2)
And here’s the re-recorded version of the song, It’s Too Hard To Make You Agree, that I wrote and released this week, last year. You can go listen to the original here, for comparison.
I know they sound different, but I guess they’re fairly similar. Both have these guitar parts that kinda help the singing along, in a way. Now, the guitar parts are different, so they seem different, but the more I think about it, the more I think they’re exactly the same.
Anyway. I kinda dig this new one more than the original. It’s got a better feel to it. Plus it’s a little more unlike anything else I’ve been recording lately, with the finger picking and all. So that’s something.
Also, I think I was channeling, subconsciously, Bob Dylan’s “I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) in the original version.” Go listen to that song and see for yourself. Pretty much the same, huh? So this updated version, today, is a little more my own, I guess. But, I’m sure it sounds exactly like some other song that someone else sang. Probably Ramblin’ Jack Elliott or someone like that.
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The Talkin’ Headline Blues #41
Didn’t get a change to record this one Monday night, but, rest assured, these are all headlines from Monday. I ain’t cheatin you.
Remember any of em? They seem so far away and back in the past, huh?
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New Song: I guess that’s just the way things go
Here’s the new one for this week. It’s definitely not finished, as there are several parts that I don’t really like, and it needs a few more verses, but this is what you get for today.
Aside from being incomplete, though, I like where it’s headed, so I’ll probably keep working on this one and I’m guessing it’ll show up in some of the sets that I play out.
Speaking of which…I have a few coming up. Next one is this Sunday at the Logan Square Farmer’s Market from 10am to 12pm. I’ll also be swinging by Gallery Cabaret on Thursday night for the open mic, if you wanna see me do a few newer songs that I’m still working out.
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