Music

Stuff about music, either mine or stuff I am listening to.

Aug 192007
 

No, I didn’t forget. 🙂

Here’s a song I wrote last year sometime. It’s really simple and in standard tuning for once, I’ll post the chords with it below.

There’s actually two very different recordings of this; I posted the new one I did, which is all acoustic — the other is more electric with a rockabilly drumbeat behind it.

Yah, I know, the bass is muddy as hell, I mixed the backing vocals a little too low, and the electric guitar part sux. But hey, it’s very much a tongue-in-cheek song anyway. Who cares? It’s supposed to sound like everyone is just hanging out jamming.

Lyrics:

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The Sunday Song: Share Some Secrets

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May 272007
 

This is one of my favorite tracks off of After the Flood. Stretch Williams laid down some really tasty lead guitar. It’s basically a torch song sort of thing. I don’t recall what key I capoed to, but the song was originally written in Em. It’s basically an Em blues, with a C7/9 substituting in for the A chord most places, and a few other jazzy chords tossed in here and there. Hope you like it.

 

Share Some Secrets

Well, I, I ain’t got no troubles left to me
Since that last sunlight faded its red away
Everything that we are now is hidden fine
And the skin under my lips is sweetest wine

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