I’ve had a piece of music I made up that I’ve been playing for quite a while. Slide guitar in G, and homemade drums only so far. It’s kind of been stuck in limbo. It really needed some lyrics, but I had no ideas at all for it lyrically. One of the best feelings I have as a songwriter, is the spontaneous idea. It literally feels like the old comic strip “light bulb over the head” thing Yesterday at work, as I was loading a bunch of construction debris out of my work van, I had this happen to me The perfect first verse and a chorus for this song, all came to me at once. I rushed around to the front door of the van and scribbled it out on a yellow legal pad and stuffed the scrap of paper in to my wallet (I actually have a cardboard box down in the Flat Broke Subterranean Studio that is stuffed full of crumpled up pieces of yellow paper) Anyway, now comes the hard part. Oftentimes this first idea burst yields a good path to follow, but then I have to take a mental machete into the creative part of my brain, and carve out the next couple of verses Time to pack a lunch, slap on the hard hat, and get to work on this one.
Posted on: Sat, 31 May 2014 12:08:41 +0000
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