new recordings, for a wonder

[jwgh]

Last night, I felt like making some recordings. So I did. Here are two of the results.

First up we have a relatively new original song, Photo Album. [introduction]

This is the song I wrote for the Songwriters In The Round event at AS220 a few months ago. It was written on the assigned theme, which was 'Childhood Photographs'. [I was really afraid that one or more of the other singer/songwriters would have written similar songs, but nobody did.]

Song #2 is a song by Paul Geremia called Stone Sober Blues. [intro] I've always liked this song, partly because (in my interpretation) the singer is supposed to be pretty seriously drunk. Anyway, I've recorded it here on piano. Ignore the obvious mistake at the end!

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As always, all the recordings are available on my website and can also be retrieved from my podcast. Also, you can see previous posts of mine with the tag 'podcast'.

Comments

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

Let me get this straight: you write a song about

a photo album bound in human skin

(spoiler protected -- select text to view) and you worry everyone else will write something similar?

I think you fail to appreciate just how far out of the box your thinking is.

But I don't.

[jwgh]

Well, er, I guess in retrospect it seems a little silly, but at the time it didn't seem out of the question that someone else might have decided to base their song around The Exorcist. (Which actually is a movie I've never seen, so I suppose that my song is more based around Good Omens than anything else, though that isn't quite right either.)

[surferelf.livejournal.com]

> Last night, I felt like making some recordings.

To my brane, this sentence is the same as "Last night, I felt like deviating my septum." Nonetheless, it is a good thing that you did.