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Rewritten Song: Not For Me or You (version 2)

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Last year this week I wrote, recorded, and released this song, “Not For Me or You,” which eventually made it onto my full-length album that I put out in August. Listen to the original recording, which is basically the same as the album version, right here.

This recording is only different in that I sped up the tempo, took the song outta 3/4 time, made it a blues number (surprise, surprise), and maybe added or subtracted a couple words (a baby here, a man there). Otherwise it’s the same song.

I never played this one out at a performance after I wrote it. Never did even after I put it on my album. It was always kinda a hard one for me to remember. Maybe because it was so long in 3/4 time. Maybe because it felt like a drag to sing. Maybe because I never tried to really learn it. I always liked it for some reason, though.

Anyway. There’s the new version for ya. Come back tomorrow for the old one.

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The Talkin’ Headline Blues #9

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It’s time again for Talkin’ Headline Tuesday, friends. Here’s the new version. All the lines have been taken verbatim from cnn.com. You don’t even really need to read any news at all ever again. Just come here every Tuesday and listen to a recap.

For this version I decided to sing all the lines instead of talk them. So it’s a bit different, but mostly it’s exactly the same.

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New Song: All the Answers of Old

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Here it is, folks. The first new song released in the new year. This one I wrote last week on Wednesday night. Came pretty easily. Had an idea instantly. The form and pattern of the song developed out of all the other songs I’ve written the past few weeks and months. Same for the words. Then the repeating chorus came through. All in about, say, 10 minutes or so. Then I worked out 3 more verses and an ending and I had a complete song in about an hour.

That’s how it goes writing a folk song. And this sure is a big ol’ folk song. With a capital “F.”

Anyway, I feel like it’s a good song to start off the new year. Get’s me headed in some direction at least. Now I’m barreling down on the curves of the road.

Remember. Tomorrow (and every Tuesday for the rest of the year) is Talkin’ Headline Tuesday and then two days later is Replay Thursday. You don’t wanna miss that. So you gotta come back often and listen.

See ya.

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Rewritten Song: Out in the Cold Cold Wind (version 2)

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It’s Replay Thursday (renamed from Repost Thursday, because “replay” sounds better). The song I wrote, recorded and released this week last year was “Out in the Cold Cold Wind,” which ended up on my album, “It’s Chicago!” which you can go buy in iTunes or over at CDBaby.

The original version, which is basically exactly the same as the album version and which you can listen to here, was in 3/4 time and I wrote it on one of those absolutely frigid Chicago nights. Was a beautiful night actually. A lovely, post-Christmas, pre-New Year night. A nice, slow, easy-paced night. That’s how I wrote the song, that’s how I sung it too.

This new version is a bit hotter. It’s hotter outside today. It’s gonna be 60 degrees tomorrow to send out 2010. This new one moves. It’s a lot like my other song from a few months back “I ain’t gonna be returnin that-a-way.” Well, actually, it doesn’t sound anything like that version of that song. But I play “Ain’t returnin” different for different occasions and this new version of “Cold Cold Wind” sounds like a different version of “Ain’t returnin.”

Okay. That’s it. Soon it’ll be 2011. See ya there.