Posts Tagged ‘MP3’

This weekend, I spent nearly eight hours on one song. This is not that song. That song is called, “For You,” a simple crescendo in D. It began a few weeks ago as I sat and reacquainted myself with my guitar. A simple D pattern and a few lyrics emerged. And so, with some time…

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I knew I was in trouble when I found myself face down on a massage table in the Maldvives nearly a week into my honeymoon and I couldn’t silence the worries in my head. It was making me kind of nuts to be somewhere so beautiful, so tranquil, and with someone I love so much,…

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My hand to God’s, here’s how it happened. I woke up late on account of getting home late from last night’s “Besides” release with a bonus Sundown show afterwards. I jumped online to update the set list on my site, then checked out Sundown’s site to see if they’d updated anything (like, “We hung with…

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This one found me. I was finishing my coffee, just pacing around the living room with my guitar, when I started strumming this progression. I mumbled nonesense until “baby take a look at me” and “someone save me” emerged. The rest is here on tape (or, um, mp3). Those polyrhythms you hear in the bridge…

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Sometimes songs come easily. I woke up from an afternoon nap around two o’clock (late night at Alphabet Lounge) with a dog eared copy of Ben Fong Torres’ Gram Parson biography, “Hickory Wind,” at my side, and heard a melody with the line “If you’re goin’ back to L.A., tell my father I said hello”…

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ProTools has finally made it out of its box in the closet of my new apartment to the floor of the closet of my new apartment. Just in time to capture this new idea (which is sorely in need of a Chris Abad solo) that hit me Saturday morning. The form and structure is super-familiar…

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Ken, who owns and runs sound at Rockwood Music Hall, recorded our entire performance last night. I was thinking about releasing it as an iTunes-only EP, but I’m kinda’ on the fence. The performances are pretty good, and the recording’s pretty good too. But somehow, neither seem good enough. That said, drummer Ryan Vaughn, who…

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I realize this is one of the most over-exposed pop songs in recent history, but I think there’s good reason for it. It’s all about the letter “A.” When Noel Gallagher rocks “Wonderwall,” the E in “maybe” is more of an A. All the better to rhyme with “save,” and — for that matter “me”…

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Once again, the epiphany arrived at the intersection of 72d & Broadway. The first few drops of the first spring rain were falling. The air was thick and warm. Rush hour traffic was slowing. A few blocks uptown, spotlights searched the sky above The Beacon. I was double-crossing Broadway and 73d concurrently when I thought,…

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I spent a few hours trying to multi-track this one, then returned to the original demo. I was trying to write something that balances the protest of Bob Dylan or Billy Bragg or Woodie Guthrie with the romance of… well, everyone else. Which was a dangerous proposition cuz no one hates preachy, dogmatic songs worse…

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