From now on, this is a music blog. Not about music, but a blog with songs and or song sketches. There will be mostly three sources for the music:
1. Me
2. Me and some friends playing acoustic
3. Me and some friends playing electric
So let's start this thing. One thing to keep in mind is that as a writer, I don't really complete songs or give them titles. I like to keep my art alive by not holding to concrete form, but just writing in the moment and mixing the collective influence.
So maybe that's just a bunch of crap words for saying I am lazy and, as some people like to say (who read books about this kind of thing) a classic commitment phobe.
Here is a song sketch that I wrote sometime ago, maybe 2000? I think I wrote it in Montana at my Geologic Field Camp next to a campfire late at night and fairly drunk.
Sound quality may not be good, so you might need headphones...
Any comments would be welcomed. I have quite a backlog of songs, so I will be posting frequently so if you like one or hate another, let me know.
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3 comments:
I like. It evokes melancholy and hope all at once. Good and bad, light and dark. Or is that just me?
So I just found Sixty Six Steps on rhapsody. That'll do well with working. I swear it wasn't there a month ago.
I concur. Simple, in the musical way, but complex, in the emotional way. It's very Tommy Lee Jones circa 1995. Slightly Filter-esque. I know most musicians don't like being compared to other, more famous musicians, but I have a limited vocabulary so you are going to get a lot of it.
Somehow I don't see it being written fire-side in Montana, though. Are you sure that's when it was written? It just doesn't have that fire-side, montana feeling. It does have a peaceful, easy feeling, though. One that won't let you down.
goddamn, this is a whole different song when stoned. Love it! More please! Schuyler Fisk has 5 songs to listen to on her site, so she's got you on quantity.
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