Lowden Guitars

I've long wanted a Lowden guitar.  Made in Ireland.  Played by Pierre Bensusan and Alex de Grassi.  I've also wanted a cedar top.  If any friends have about $4,000 they'd like to spend on me for Christmas....

Lowden O25

Berceuse Pour Pierre

This song is pretty much finished.  I had one chord that fell into place tonight and really tied the two sections together.  The chord was nothing more than switching two fingers around on a chord I already had.  The key to this song is the rhythm.  When I looked up the definition of a lullaby it said they were almost always in 6/8 time signature, though I immediately found exceptions to that.  6/8 is supposed to mimic the gentle swaying of a mother rocking a baby.

New Song Out of Necessity

I heard some disturbing news tonight and my way of dealing with it was to try to express through song.  Nothing came very easily but I have a general sketch for the piece.  It will be a lullaby.  

To Walk the Path Once Again

This song makes its debut on Podcast #13 on the home website.

New Song?

I have a new concept for a song.  I don't know if this happens with others, but sometimes I hear a song differently than the way it sounds.  I know that is strange.  But if there is a lot of background noise or if the volume is very, very low...my brain will interpret the sound and I will hear it differently than what the actual song is.  When I turn up the volume or the background sound drops out I realize that the song is completely different.  That's what happened last night.  I was playing around with Time and Faith and came up with an extension of that song.  The TV was on in the background and what I heard was different.  When I went into another room to pursue the new extension, it sounded completely different from what I was hearing myself play with the TV on.  I was chasing something with intervals based on 6ths.  But it didn't sound right when I went into the other room.  I think I can get what I was hearing by working with intervals of 6th sand 7ths.  So I will chase that tonight.  Will it be a part of Time and Faith?  I doubt it.  I think it will end up being a new song.  I have a working title of "To Walk the Path Again".

Finally going back to listening to Townes Van Zandt.  It's hard breaking him back out, but I need him.  Listening to Live at the Old Quarter now.

My New Creedo

"There will be days when you're forced to make decisions that affect the lives of everyone you love-- choices that will change you forever. You reach an age when you realize that being a man isn't about respect or strength, it's about being aware of all the things you touch. Children face inward, wallow in their own selfish needs. Men face out, take action on the needs of others. I'm at that place, boys. I'm staring one of those decisions in the face. It looks back at me with historical eyes and it calls me a coward a killer a fraud. It wants me to crack and run from the service of my fate like a broken boy. Today, I will not do that. Today, I will be the man my father tried to be. I will make you proud." -Jax Teller

Kerouac

Diane DiPrima