It’s Talkin’ Headline Tuesday again! This new version contains headlines from yesterday, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. I sung it again instead of doing a straight up talkin’ blues, but I think it kinda works like that. Plus it’s more fun for me. Sometimes it’s a drag to do a talkin’ blues. Especially when you say one every week.
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New Song: Someday
This song I wrote last night and it was kind of a struggle. Or, really, I mean that I just had to work on it for a while. Take a few breaks in-between each verse. Get up. Walk around. Wash the dishes. But once I started it I knew I had to finish it.
Some songs aren’t like that. You start em and know they’re not going anywhere and they never get finished.
Others you pound out in 5 minutes, let sit for a few days, and going back to them you can’t remember what you thought was interesting at all.
This one still strikes me as something. It’s similar, in that way, to the song from two weeks ago, “All the Answers of Old.” Plus, like that one, it’s a pretty straight-forward, old-fashioned folk tune, so-to-speak.
What do you think?
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Rewritten Song: Lawd Almighty (version 2)
It’s Replay Thursday again, folks. This week last year I wrote this song, “Lawd Almighty.” I was deep into some serious James Baldwin novels at the time. Specifically, “Go Tell It on a Mountain.”
Anyway, that’s where this song came from. It also made it onto my full-length album that came out in August. You can hear the original version from 2010 right here. If you’ve heard me play out live over the past 6 months you’ve probably heard this one. It’s definitely one of my favorites to perform. And one of my favorites to play around the house for kicks.
The new version, for today, is a bit different. I rearranged the word order and the musical accompaniment a tad. So it’s got an altered feel. I’d say it’s more traditional Gospel tune and the original is more like a field howl. Both get a similar idea across, though.
In other news. Did you know the Barehand Jugband is playing tonight at Fitzgerald’s in Berwyn? No? Well, you better get over there at 8pm. It’s only 5 dollars and there’s no better place in Chicagoland to see country music. Jon Williams Swing Group plays first, so we’ll go on about 9pm, probably. See ya there.
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The Talkin’ Headline Blues #10
Here’s the next installment of Talkin’ Headline Tuesday.
Don’t have anything to say about it other than the media finally got something (since I started this song) to go overboard on. Every single angle will be talked and written about until there’s so much to understand that nothing can be understood at all.
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New Song: I’ve seen the sun
This one was written last night. I wrote about 9 or 10 songs last week, but none of them were really working out the way I was hoping. So I sat down and hammered this one out.
Kind of a more laid back number.
And not much to say about it. Hope ya enjoy.
In other news…the Barehand Jugband is playing at Fitzgerald’s this Thursday (1/13). You should come check it, especially if you live close and definitely if you’ve never been there before. Plus it’s only 5 dollars. Show starts at 8pm.
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