Emily's song for aging punk rockers, played on a Cigano GJ-15
This month is a song that steals its verse from a poem by Emily Dickinson, its chorus from a song by Nick Lowe (by way of Elvis Costello), and in the end was stitched together by family poet Aurora during a long car trip to Iowa . The song constructs its melody using a chord progression that runs like a Moebius strip continuously modulating between an inner and outer key. I play it on an inexpensive gypsy jazz guitar that I purchased with the Bush tax credit, which was suppo
