Archive for the 'Songs' Category
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What a tremendous album this is.
Brad Paisley has always applied a certain amount of wit to his records, and has written songs full of sexual politics, sentimentality, and recreational drinking in the great tradition of country music. As well as being among the best guitarists [...]
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Tags: American Saturday Night, brad paisley
Mudcrutch by Mudcrutch
He says ‘I dont believe in money
But a man could make him a killin’
‘Cause some of that stuff don’t sound
Much different than Dylan
I hear down there it’s changed you see
They’re not as backward as they used to be
He’s gone country, look at them boots
He’s gone country, back to his roots
He’s gone country, a new kind [...]
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On Band Camp
BandCamp does for musicians what WordPress does for writers. We’ve had MySpace for a few years now, but MySpace is nasty, ugly, chock full o’ shite and owned by News Corporation.
BandCamp, as you can tell from their introductory video, was created by Mac users: people who know good interface design instinctively, and appreciate the importance [...]
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Tags: bandcamp
Serendip City
Back when I was in a band, I was surrounded by musicians who were much better than me. This is as it should be. I was the one with the songs and the vision, but to create the perfect artefact, you need people around you who can realise your vision.
It wasn’t quite that way with [...]
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Tags: go dog go, home recording, pro tools
What a way
Download “What a way to go”
I’ve used a similar chord sequence before, on a song I wrote in the early 90s. This time, I’ve flipped the verse/chorus and added a middle bit.
UPDATE: A slight remix, pruning some stuff out that made it too busy in places, keeping it more in accordance with the arrangement I’d [...]
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Tags: home recording, pro tools
On Harmonicas
Nobody taught me to play the harmonica, and I don’t think it’s the kind of thing you can learn from a book, although there are books that purport to teach it. You just have a go, and if you can do it, you can do it. Bending notes is the thing that people imagine might [...]
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Tags: blues harp, harmonica, home recording, pro tools
A demo… and a remix
Today I wrote this and recorded a demo of it so I’d remember the tune:
It’s certain to evolve. Some of the words might change. The demo finishes with a bum chord. You can hear me exclaim in annoyance. But I couldn’t be bothered to do it again. If you listen carefully at the beginning and [...]
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Accidentals
I vaguely understand that some good music has some accidentally played notes in it: mistakes which turn out to be quite musical. Very rarely, I am loose and relaxed enough to do something that sounds quite nice. I have found, for example, that I often play electric guitar better when standing up and moving around [...]
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Melancholy Els
I’ve reached the Ls in my alphabetical plod through the thousand songs on my iPlod. It’s taking a long time. Starting in January, it has taken two months of journeys to work to get halfway-ish through the alphabet. I only listen on the way to work, you see, not on the way home. The golden [...]
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Tags: ipod, melancholia, playlist
Odd Inspirations
The creative process can be mysterious, and many are reluctant to analyse it in any way, lest the inspiration disappears altogether.
I used to have a book called Bob Dylan: In His Own Words (you could get others in the series for people like The Beatles etc.), and there was a funny quote in it, not [...]
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Tags: songwriting
