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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Evolution of a Song-Week Two

This song "Loser" was written on a day when I really wanted to go have a happy hour drink/snack with a friend. You know how sometimes, you just want a beer and the feeling doesn't go away until you have one? Well that was me that day. I called everyone I knew but I was unsuccessful-nobody was free to drink with me. Or I would have to wait a few hours (gasp!).

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