What the heck is this song about? [audio:shotgun.mp3] Click the big blue button and then check the lyrics if you’d like to follow along… I been trying to call you / get you on the phone couldn’t get you alone/ couldn’t get you at all i was just trying to break through i can’t get […]
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[audio:halfwayhome.mp3] Halfway Home has been through so many tweaks and different versions over the last few years that I’ve lost count. At one point I had an entire hard drive that was devoted exclusively to this song. It suffered a career-ending meltdown last year and I had to start the song again from scratch – […]
[audio:halfwayhome.mp3] Halfway Home is the oldest song on Days Between Stations. The beginnings of this track go back quite a few years, to a New Year’s field trip that I took with a bunch of friends to a remote part of Death Valley National Park. It’s called Saline Valley, and it’s about 50 miles from […]
What’s that guy talking about? Here’s your chance to find out. Press the big blue play button and follow along with the lyrics. [audio:halfwayhome.mp3] There was fever in the coal black boots that she wore She danced like a hurricane coming ashore Yeah, the warning came but I was too far gone Tied myself to […]
Welcome back to Week 3 of the “hey, check out the new music” blog marathon! This week, it’s Halfway Home, the third song from Radio Nowhere’s debut EP, Days Between Stations. [audio:halfwayhome.mp3] One particularly quotable friend of mine thinks this song “sounds like Elton John on a cough syrup bender”. I’m not sure about that, […]
Here’s Catherine Wheel one more time to round out the week: [audio:catherinewheel.mp3] If you want to know a little bit about where this song came from, check this out (SB – this is for you): Catherine Wheel was written on a late, lamented Baby Taylor acoustic, which is a guitar built for the little people […]
Here’s the song: [audio:catherinewheel.mp3] Annnnd, here are the lyrics – instant sing-along! (You’ll have to imagine the bouncing ball yourself…) Backseat driver with something to prove she was runnin some daytime night moves she said to leave the radio on rolled out for a cigarette don’t you stay too long/gonna play our song but you […]
Click to hear the song: [audio:londoncalling.mp3] Thursday is geek day! If you want to know exactly how London Calling was gently coaxed out of my acoustic guitar to its glorious many-instrumented, multitracked, shiny pop destiny, the next nine paragraphs are for you. Like most of the rest of the songs from the Days Between Stations […]
Here’s the song: [audio:londoncalling.mp3] Annnnd, here are the lyrics – instant sing-along! (You’ll have to imagine the bouncing ball yourself…) I been waiting in the airport bar for hours I been wondering if they’re gonna make me drink all day Last call calling on a non-stop back to the heartland Calling on your getaway Every […]
This doesn’t have anything to do with music, or songwriting…I just thought it was so fabulous that I had to bring it to your attention. Cows are actually large, beefy…compasses: “German scientists using satellite images posted online by Google Earth have observed something that has escaped the notice of farmers, herders and hunters for thousands […]