Evolution of a Song-Week Six

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The Evolution of this song is much like the evolution of a lot of my songs. Basically I play and play until it feels right!:) Haha. Although I'm half -joking there is definitely a truth to that. I had the lyrics and melody for the chorus on my recorder so I started playing along with the guitar. I really liked the melody and the words and the general idea of the song. Basically, just that sometimes you need to cry and "you won't stop until you're through."

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Evolution of a Song-Week Five

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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

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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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