Previous Song-a-Week Videos
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#21: Last Picture Song (May 22, 2011) |
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#22: Have Your Love (May 29, 2011) This week's tune is "Have Your Love", another old-timer. To perform it, we go back to Jason's Pub and perhaps one of the world's only power folk trios, the T Rex of folk-rock: me, Jason Morgan & Clark Williams. It's a straight-up tune, I reckon, sort of a boy-girl unrequited love deal. Although the lyrics carry a heavy dose of irony and it does have a pretty severe case of tongue in cheek. Oh, and the chord structure is very unusual for the genre, if there is a genre to which it belongs (we're already on shaky ground with the phrase "power folk trio" :). Come to think of it, maybe it's not so straight-up as all that. Pretty tight arrangement, we had a blast doing it. |
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#23: Triana (June 3, 2011) This week's tune is "Triana", a solo effort. "Triana" is nothing but a country song, a drinking song, as anybody who's ever been down to the River Club will likely suspect. This goes back to my much wilder days, back when I could (and did) stay up all night. Not recommended behavior, but there you go. Yes, it's a straight-up country song, or at least as straight-up as I could ever hope to write one. |
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#24: Too Far To Catch Me (June 11, 2011) This week's tune is
"Too Far To Catch Me", caught live in performance by
Bimini Road at
Berkeley Bob's Coffee House in Cullman, Alabama. We were
there as part of a city-wide event, Cullman Appreciation
Day. Marvelous time, the whole downtown was full of music
stages, vendors and crowds of people all there celebrating
the fact Cullman is rebuilding downtown after the
devastation of the tornados of April 27. We were proud to be
part of it, and playing at our favorite place. Bob was
unable to be there, as he is recovering from heart surgery
(and we all wish him well and are keeping him in our
prayers), but I did get to talk to him, and his spirit is as
broad and positive as ever. "Too Far To Catch" is a
relatively new tune, we've played it for a few years. It was
great to have Shelley's mandolin back in the mix, and
there's some nice "call & response" going on in the second
lead break. There's also some interesting cinematic moments
at about the 1:30 mark. |
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#25: Purely States the Blues (June 18, 2011) This week's tune is "Purely States the Blues", recorded up in Jason's Pub. Jason, Clark & I did the honors on recording. "Purely" is a song that reaches back again, I wrote it several years ago. As Bimini Road (or our earlier incarnation of Mister Charley), I think we may have performed it once, or maybe we just played it in the garage. It's another sort of rockish hymn ("learning that eternal song"), suitable for some church that exists in a universe I frequent every now and then (what a great phrase: "frequent" "every now and then". We speak a wonderful language, a language for poets and scientists and aviators. I love it.) |