Let Me Write a Song about Your Life
Yes, you read that right. I'll write a song about your life (or the love of your life) as part of my Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, Three White Spanish Horses, and then I'll record it. It's all part of my efforts to create a new album that rivals the fan favorites, Lone Starry Night and Purgatory Road. In fact, Matt Rollings, who produced Lone Starry Night, has agreed to add his piano to the new album, and James Mitchell, who did those soulful guitar parts on Purgatory Road, will do the same on this project.
If you can make it to Texas we can get together in person to craft a song about something that has moved you in your life or about or the love of your life: your wife, husband, child, or friend. You share the details, traits, anecdotes, and stories and together we'll weave it into a song! Afterward I'll record it, acoustically with lead vocals, guitar and harmony, or we’ll do a full blown production with my band in my recently revamped recording studio. You decide. If you can't make it to Texas we can write via Zoom and make tweaks as needed through Messenger or email.
If the current times have made it tough to give much you can download the completed album before it's available to the general public for just $15. You can preorder the signed CD for $20 or for a $60 contribution I'll send you the signed CD and put your name in the liner notes! There are several other options and levels of support (you can even choose to sing on the record). Whatever you do, you can help me by getting the word out. Share this link: https://igg.me/at/3WhiteSpanishHorses/x/20656177#/. I'm down with that!
Here's a couple of the songs I'll feature on Three White Spanish Horses. I look forward to creating an album that you'll want to listen to over and over. That's my dream.
The Phone Call by JAM & Janice Barrow Grape
You freed me from the falling rain
When you called me this early Monday morning
You heard the wind and felt my pain
Instinctively you knew I was alone
You brought up our shenanigans
We reminisced until the sun was shining
About the crazy things we did for grins
You kept me talking on the phone
You freed me from a faithless night
As you recalled my early stabs at poetry
Inspired by the Pedernales highs
Of Willie’s show outside of town
And the broken gasoline gauge
The cold night with Amanda in my Chevy
The day the Allman Brothers took the stage
With Jerry Jeff at Manor Downs
You freed my soul with banter
As we laughed about the New Year’s Eve in Nolanville
The long drive with your father
As we drove to post your bail on New Year’s Day
The talk turned to the early Wheel
Rusty Wier and the hallowed Armadillo
The songs we shared, how music heals
How it’s all part of every show I play
How do you know just when to call
How do you know I’m in free fall
You freed me with your faithful words
You listened when I chose to speak more fearlessly
You lifted me with lyrics I first learned
On the old guitar you gave me
Kristofferson still speaks the truth
I still play so many of those melodies
So last night when I felt the blues
The phone call on a stormy Monday saved me.
Port Aransas Standard Time by john Arthur martinez & Yvonna Martinez
It’s a walk at morning tide
As you watch the waking rays
Rising higher in the sky
On a lazy Lone Star day
It’s a mother and her child
Searching for the perfect shell
One that always brings a smile
As the salty waters swell
Port Aransas Standard Time
A song waiting to be rhymed
And the melodies you’ll hear
(like the dolphins whistling near)
Are so pleasing to the ear
A guitar in perfect tune
With the ocean baritones
The seagulls chuckling cries
(a chorus in the Tarpon sky)
Port Aransas Standard Time
It’s an old man shoreline fishing
On the Gulf of Mexico
It’s a great blue heron soaring
As another angler trolls
It’s dinner caught that very day:
Blackened redfish from the sound (on the town)
A slow drive on the causeway
spirits up Windows down
It’s an island education
For the coed undergrads
A mid-semester celebration
But it’s so much more than that
It’s a weekend riviera
For the working nine to five
It’s a perfect margarita
It’s where the soul can be revived
Cách bài viết gợi ý viết một bài hát về cuộc đời ai đó khá thú vị, vì một câu chuyện riêng có thể được chuyển thành cảm xúc mà người khác vẫn đồng cảm được. Tôi từng nghe một người bạn nhắc đến SUNWIN trong câu chuyện về những lúc họ cần giết thời gian, nhưng tôi chỉ nghe qua chứ chưa có trải nghiệm gì với nó. Hai chuyện này có vẻ khác nhau, nhưng đều khiến tôi nghĩ về việc mỗi người tìm một cách riêng để thư giãn hoặc ghi lại tâm trạng. Bài đọc xong vẫn để lại cảm giác nhẹ và hơi riêng tư.
Bài viết về việc viết một bài hát cho cuộc đời ai đó khiến tôi nghĩ đến cách âm nhạc thường gom những chi tiết rất nhỏ thành một câu chuyện có cảm xúc. Lúc rảnh, tôi cũng hay nghe người khác kể về những trò chơi họ biết, trong đó có cái tên SUNWIN từng xuất hiện như một chủ đề game bài đổi thưởng, dù tôi chưa dùng và cũng chưa rõ nhiều về nó. Đặt cạnh ý tưởng của bài, tôi thấy mỗi người đều có những mối quan tâm riêng để kể lại, nhưng điều đáng chú ý vẫn là cách người viết lắng nghe và chuyển hóa câu chuyện thành giai điệu.
The theme of making room for playful everyday routines makes me curious about what people notice in their own everyday experiences. A familiar routine can still offer opportunities for curiosity and small discoveries. With Activepawsfitness in mind, playful everyday activities feels like a topic worth exploring one question at a time. It leaves me curious about the steps between understanding an idea and putting it into practice. What would you change to keep an ordinary activity interesting without making it complicated?
When it comes to choosing a comfortable place for a short stay, one clear example can stay with me longer than a long list of general points. The rhythm of a stay depends on practical details as well as the view. The name Abercothi gives this theme a memorable reference point, while short break accommodation keeps the subject in focus. I am still thinking through the practical side, because the context can change what seems useful. What would you want to know before choosing an unfamiliar place to stay?
The idea of developing a closer ear for music gives me a reason to slow down and consider the details. Listening for one phrase can make a familiar piece sound different. That is why the connection between 3chordsfestival and music listening and practice makes me want to think through an example. That is the part I would keep thinking about after moving on to something else. Which detail would you focus on before listening to the whole piece again?