Here’s a new song based on a Gospel tune called “Ride On King Jesus.” You can check out a version of that song by watching this video.
Now, I’m not saying I sing it anything like that, but it’s along the same lines. Comes from the same place. Goes to the same ends. I had to add a few more differing verses, though, cause I don’t have 20 people behind and around and above me all shoutin out loud. It came together pretty well, though. I’ll be playing this one out for sure.
In fact, I’ll be playing out this Friday (2/4) at Cafe Mustache. Got a show with Al Scorch and his big old banjo. It’ll be a great night. Starts at 7:30pm. Goes till 10:30 or so.
Here we go with another Replay Thursday. This week, last year I wrote and recorded and released “Pray to Your Lord.” It was a blues tune based on the song “Step It Up and Go” as performed by Blind Boy Fuller. I also put it on my album “Andrew Francis,” that came out in August. That album version is very closely similar to the original recording. Listen to the original here.
So this new recording is a lot different. It’s not in any way a blues tune anymore. And I rearranged most all of the words.
Well, wait. I just listened to it again. It’s still a blues tune. It’s just not a historical country blues tune. Doesn’t have that easy lazy flow to it. Sounds more like a song that I’d write out of the blue rather than when I steal the melody from some other song.
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Sat down last night to churn out a new tune and I just got stumped. That’s what happens when you don’t hit it very hard during the week. Luckily, though, because I write so much I can just flip back through my notebook and find something I started and never really finished or worked on. I wrote this one back on January 12, or, at least started to write it. I finished it off last night by adding a couple verses and changing some of the original words.
It’s still missing something, I think. A chorus to maybe tie it all together somehow. Feels like it needs a chorus. Like it builds to something and just keeps on building up and up to nowhere. Towers that get too tall always come crashing down, eventually.
So, anyway. There’s the new song for today. Got any ideas for a chorus? Send em my way.
Here we go. Another Replay Thursday. This week last year I wrote, recorded and released “Take It, or Leave It;” another tune that made it onto my “Andrew Francis” album that I put out in August. The original recording is, again, pretty much the same as the album version. You can listen to it here.
Anyway. This new version is somewhat different. Other than it being a whole lot slower than the 2010 version, it’s also more of a ballad-type song instead of a blues-type song. There’s no repeating lines. It’s just all kinda stream-of-conscious, here-it-is-and-there-it-goes. Kinda rolls along real easy. Not frantic and worried like the original.
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