Well, here's another month that's really gotten away from me. I'm working on a few musical projects, but nothing that's really at the "let me show it to you" stage, so the song this month is one I did to accompany a video for The Little Red Ball.
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I've been playing with my computer lately, and I was having fun writing out little parts for piano and then assigning them to other instruments - a bagpipe, for instance - just to see what it would sound like. Well, this got me thinking it might be fun to try to piece together a song by writing and recording the parts on one instrument and then assigning the part to another, and then try to piece something somewhat coherent out of it all.
14 songs in 28 days
FAWM stands for February Album Writing month, and there's a free album I did for that inside this post.
and i will lay my love around you
Nodding musically to Eno, and mangling the writings of Evelyn Underhill, I became inspired recently to try my own hand at writing something hymnal yet contemporary, something that acknowledged my perception of the "All That Is" and gave it its due gratitude. Something reverent yet upbeat, that still allowed me to play my gnat guitar, which appears about midway through this song. Yes, Charlotte…gnats are beautiful too.
the iphone as songwriting companion
The iPhone has streamlined the writing process for me, in both the capturing of ideas and in their organization. It's great to have one handheld device that's always with me and that can serve an increasingly useful purpose. In this post, I outline my basic process in hopes that it might give you some idea of the capabilities, and perhaps inspire you to begin streamlining your own creative process.
i’ve got some corn for poppin’
I hope you have the chance to listen to this song as you watch snow falling outside your window. If not, I hope you'll close your eyes and imagine it that way, for that is its sole intent.
how ungrateful i must have seemed
I'm not a scientist, Jim. I don't even play one on TV. But I felt turkey was getting all the blame for Thanksgiving day sleepiness and wanted to set the record, somewhat at least, straight. This month's song explains my understanding of how it works, even if it inadvertently conjures a bit of Adam Sandler.
sometimes love is only sleeping
As I was waffling about what song to offer you this month - something new that I'd need to bring to life, or something old that's dressed in cobwebs - I was thinking about all the spooky Halloween-type songs of the rock era and kept coming back to this one: Zombie Love by the Jazz Butcher.
like a red rubber ball
Here's the video for The Little Red Ball that the Meet Me at the Gulf of Mexico song was used in. The pictures were taken mostly in Gulf Shores and Orange Beach AL, with a couple thrown in from the Pensacola FL airport.
you’ll never guess, i’m bored now
Years ago I lived in a big old house on the outskirts of downtown Montgomery with two magnificent artists and an eccentric and delightful landlady. We were all pretty much the same age, so calling her a "landlady" seems a little misleading...
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