Chuck Puckett's Song a Week Project

Song-A-Week Quick List

Here's a quick list of links to all the SAW videos. You can find more detailed info here.

Title	Date	Notes
Don't Take My Caroline Away	2 Jan 2011	Boy loses girl. Boy shoots people. Classic love story. Live recording at Berkeley Bob's.
Mister Milk	9 Jan 2011	Afraid to face the world, and mad because of it.
Silver Dollar	16 Jan 2011	Existential blue collar work song. Work. Drink. Sleep. Repeat.
Prodigal Son	23 Jan 2011	Yes, that prodigal son. Live recording at Berkeley Bob's.
Make a Little Fuss on Me	30 Jan 2011	A simple little ditty, a dance tune, I guess.
Ancient Sunlight	6 Feb 2011	A folk song warning about the oil running out. Which it is.
Sink or Swim	12 Feb 2011	Blues tune loosely based on the story of Jacob's ladder. But not really.
Blues Won't Get You	20 Feb 2011	An old blues of mine. I've always been drawn to this song.
Fountain of Youth	27 Feb 2011	In the memories of old friends we haven't seen for a long time, we stay forever young.

Got My Mojo Working	6 Mar 2011	Yes, another song about the mojo. Hey. It's fun to play this stuff.
Next Time Around	13 Mar 2011	Existential professional at work.
King Blue & Pearly	20 Mar 2011	A long folk song that follows these two characters getting back together.
Straight Downhill	27 Mar 2011	A great little anthem about dealing with what comes and goes.
Marie's Last Line	3 Apr 2011	A girl who mesmerizes everybody. Nice one chord blues in E.
Autumn Hurricane	10 Apr 2011	This song has grown on me. The God question, which is a hard one.
Heaven's Song	17 Apr 2011	A favorite theme: attraction contends with miscommunication.
Heraclitan Boogie	23 Apr 2011	You rarely hear a boogie blues about a pre-Socratic philosopher.
Saved Again	29 Apr 2011	From the musical Space Rangers and the Viper Menace. Really.

Ol' MacNeal	8 May 2011	Mike MacNeal was a truly unique individual.
Never Tried	11 May 2011	Folky song with hisorical and literary allusions, and a heavy rock interlude.
Last Picture Song	20 May 2011	This one has a very interesting chord structure and apocalyptic imagery.
Have Your Love	27 May 2011	This guy never had a chnce with this girl. But he never knew that.
Too Far To Catch Me	11 Jun 2011	Outrunning those who try to pin me down. Great instrumental break. Live recording at Berkeley Bob's.
Purely States the Blues	19 Jun 2011	When the wind blows against you, reach down and keep going.
Hopefully Paranoia	25 Jun 2011	An audience member once told me this was the best depiction of mental illness she'd ever heard in a song. I did not ask how she judged that.
Old Khayyam	1 Jul 2011	Based on 3 quatrains from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Goodbye, Wyoming	10 Jul 2011	A hitch-hiking song. Lot of people really like this tune.

Do What You Gotta Do	17 Jul 2011	A cheating song with a definite twist. Great mandolin riff.
Kindness of Strangers	24 Jul 2011	Inspired by the famous Tennessee William's line. And by Blanche.
Train o'Time	5 Aug 2011	Written from something said by a Deadhead in the L&N Cafe in B'ham.
Peace Of Mind	11 Aug 2011	A lullaby, meant to ease the worried soul.
Forty Two	21 Aug 2011	Inspired by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. What is 9 x 6?
Pouring Rain	27 Aug 2011	He hurts her, she hurts him and it's raining. And Ruthie nails the vocal.
Triana	27 Aug 2011	It's a bar on the Tennessee River. Where people end up late at night.
Going Out To Ely	3 Sep 2011	Another hitch-hiking song. Ely, Nevada. Back in the day, we all did the Far West hitch-hike Grand Tour. And gathered our stories.
Find My Next Regret	10 Sep 2011	Country song, co-wrote with Shelley Heard. Looking for women.

Almost Knocking	23 Sep 2011	A kind of spooky song. Title comes from the tune somehow reminding me of The Stones' "Can't You Hear Me Knocking".
Maybe All You Need	25 Sep 2011	Sort of rockabilly. A backbeat is all you need.
Seven Blue Horses	1 Oct 2011	A political blues. Title (originally "I See Seven Blue Horses") comes from the oddly placed C7 chord.
Gimme That Sundown	10 Oct 2011	A sittiing on the porch blues song. You know what I mean.
Valari	14 Oct 2011	Inspired by legends JRR Tollien wrote in Silmarillon. Seven is important.
Jasmine in July	22 Oct 2011	Jasmine is Carol's favorite scent. Wallace Stevens influenced this.
Raving	30 Oct 2011	A song in defiance of authority and in jest of those who succumb.
Pathegoric Solitue	6 Nov 2011	An odd title. About miscommunicated love (again). I love to play this.
It's Worked Before	13 Nov 2011	The man who crushes his own dreams and lives off the past.

Summersmoke	17 Nov 2011	Another song about imperfect communication.
Occupation	17 Nov 2011	Not a SAW song, I was inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement.
All In the Blood	24 Nov 2011	A rock and roller, complete with Shakespearean references.
Changes	29 Nov 2011	Folk song about a wizard wannabe. "Changes" refer to the I Ching.
Making Up Time	3 Dec 2011	You can change your life and the world by what you think. I believe that.
Live In the Desert	9 Dec 2011	A bluesy gospel song that touches all 3 "Religions of the Book."
When the Snow Lies	18 Dec 2011	A Christmas Carol. I love Christmas carols.
Let Everybody Know	25 Dec 2011	A little dance tune that sings about "way back when".

In the zone, in a trance That's the way the musics dance Feel the blood and watch the pulse Listen for the silent hush Turn the corner, take a breath Step between your life and death Find the space between the notes Where inspiration lightly floats Sing the words that match the chord The meaning cannot be ignored Place your soul upon the stone And sail away to parts unknown Leave yourself so far behind That nothing can disturb your mind Feel the wind and feel the rain Till music leads you home again.