Evolution of a Song-Week Five

The process for week five was not the easiest one, I must admit. The first four weeks I had a pretty good idea of which songs I was going to use. For week five, I had a few I was working on and really didn't get a feeling about any particular one. So I worked and worked and played and played and finally at the last minute I found this song. Or rather it found me:)

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Evolution of a Song-Week Four

The Evolution of this song is really quite simple. It was raining out (and I mean pouring), I was playing the guitar and I started drinking whiskey. It just happened to be one o' clock:) I tried to be as in the moment as I could while writing the lyrics and they came to me fairly fast. I put the song down after a bit as I usually do, so that I could get some distance from it. Usually I know it's a keeper if

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Evolution of a Song-Week Three

The evolution of this song, was a long one. I thought of the idea for the words "Naked just beneath your words" (or rather it was given to me) quite a while ago. I thought it was a great idea for or line in a song. So I sat with it for a while and found some chords to go with it. But the rest didn't appear for a while.

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