For the March video, I have written a new song by giving a poem by my daughter Aurora (pictured above with her younger sister Musetta) a simple, musical setting, ideal for my 1929 Regal parlor guitar. About the Song Only two months ago, when I was writing about my old All the Fixin's song Long Hitch, I noted that I rarely write songs in the Americana vein anymore. I believe I said it is hard for me to feel creative in this style, and I implied that this style is a little played out for me. However, it turns out that what is really played out for me is my inability to produce lyrics that can give some heft to the simple musical settings characteristic of this style. These types of songs are l
February found me finally finishing another river song. This one is a dreamy, jazzy, bluesy piece that I have been working on for a few years. Part of what helped me finish the song is the new Bigsby vibrato I had installed on my Vega E30D, which inspired me to want to play this for you, which meant I needed to finish the lyrics… About the song I started messing around with this chord progression at least three years ago, and I thought from the beginning that it sounded like a river. In typical fashion, the line “I’m just a lazy river” spilled out of my mouth pretty early on, but was followed by very little else, other than the usual cave man stuff. There is a version of this song from three
