I feel like I got back into the flow of things in the studio a little bit tonight, and I did it with the acoustic in my hands for a change. It was nice to sit down with one of those, and not feel the pressure to try and write something new. I'll admit something (again) in this space: I don't play enough acoustic. It felt good to open up my calluses a little bit. To do so in an initial effort to figure out some songs that might make it into a set list sometime next year made it even more fun.
"Let Her Go," by Passenger got learned tonight. The first place I heard that song was on an episode of The Voice this season, and it's a wonderful, subtle song. The two things about it that were cool to me tonight were the fact that it's capoed high up the neck (7th fret), and that it uses a simple, repeating chord progression. Once again, the song proves that, with all of the time and effort we put into finding fancy sounding chords for our writing efforts, sometimes simple and direct really does win out in the end.
Other songs that got worked on tonight were "Deep, Dark, Truthful Mirror" by Elvis Costello, "Pancho & Lefty," originally by Townes Van Zant (I worked on a version by Jason Isbell), and "Wagon Wheel" by Old Crow Medicine Show.
Country and Folk have been taking up a larger portion of my listening lately. It's mostly involved with the storytelling, I think.
Tomorrow, I'm hoping to delve at least a little bit into the pile of new music that came home with us from Wisconsin. I'd also like to keep up with the acoustic stuff.
"Let Her Go," by Passenger got learned tonight. The first place I heard that song was on an episode of The Voice this season, and it's a wonderful, subtle song. The two things about it that were cool to me tonight were the fact that it's capoed high up the neck (7th fret), and that it uses a simple, repeating chord progression. Once again, the song proves that, with all of the time and effort we put into finding fancy sounding chords for our writing efforts, sometimes simple and direct really does win out in the end.
Other songs that got worked on tonight were "Deep, Dark, Truthful Mirror" by Elvis Costello, "Pancho & Lefty," originally by Townes Van Zant (I worked on a version by Jason Isbell), and "Wagon Wheel" by Old Crow Medicine Show.
Country and Folk have been taking up a larger portion of my listening lately. It's mostly involved with the storytelling, I think.
Tomorrow, I'm hoping to delve at least a little bit into the pile of new music that came home with us from Wisconsin. I'd also like to keep up with the acoustic stuff.
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