We've demo-ed two songs so far today, and it's almost dinnertime. We'd hoped to get to a few more than that, I guess, but all things considered, we're making great strides, since a lot of these "demos," meant to be guides for the band, are actually yielding keeper takes of both guitar and vocal.
The morning started out with a brand new song called "Don't You Worry None," written at Blue Rock in about five minutes the last time I was here.
The idea came to me all of the sudden and out of the blue and then the song proceeded to write itself. It's in a genre and style I've never written or played in before.
It's one of those "standard" type songs- and can be completely reinterpreted by anyone, its meaning dependent of the character of the voice that sings it. That's a different kind of song than I'm used to writing. We experimented with a couple different voicing and personalities for it, before settling on a vocal rendition that was flirtatious, sexy, coy. Now the song has a definite wink to it.
We moved on to the next song - "Lighthouse" - which is one that's pretty familiar to Billy and me. We know its emotional landscape like the back of our hands but we mapped it out on paper just the same.
Getting it right took elongating the tempo for one small section of the click track, multiple vocal takes and bottles of water as my vocal chords stretched and eventually yielded to the difficulties of the melody, and then several stunning guitar tracks from Mr. Crockett.
Finally, we got it just right. The guitar and vocal swell and recede together in this glorious tandem.
This has been one of those magic moments for me. It's a similar rush to the feeling of having just written a song you can be proud of.
So- good day today. :-)
I'm really excited about this album.
The band's coming in on Saturday - Chris Maresh, Rick Richards, Kevin Lovejoy, and Daran DeShazo.
Can't wait.
Everything is amazing and right with the world.
But I do want to hear my husband's voice. That's going to be the cherry on the top of this long day.
Miles to go till then.
grace
