I think I wrote it, but I could be wrong - do you recognize it?
It's truncated because it's meant to be a short "chaser" after a song. (Assuming the elves stop by overnight and finish the lyrics for me.)
I think I wrote it, but I could be wrong - do you recognize it?
It's truncated because it's meant to be a short "chaser" after a song. (Assuming the elves stop by overnight and finish the lyrics for me.)
Last edited by Dave Hicks; Oct-18-2023 at 10:52am.
Nice tune. New to me, though I don't know every tune ever composed!
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
I think that anyone who writes much has this issue, in two ways
1. writing "new" songs that aren't actually new
2. writing songs that just seem so natural that they MUST have been done before, or sound familiar.
I hope you're in category 2!
It's especially common for Bluegrass thanks to the strictures of form for traditional sounding tunes (just a few chords, basic rhythm & melodic phrase patterns, etc.)
It happens to me, though not too often since I'm not that great a writer! ;-)
Anyway, this one does sound nice and natural, but doesn't ring any bells for me.
Sounds great. New to me.
Thanks to all for listening. I'll take this down later today, as I'm getting near the limit for a free Soundcloud account.
Since nobody's recognized it, I guess I wrote it. I'll post the song that it goes with when the rest of the lyrics show up. (Any day now, I'm sure.)
D.H.
Dave, it sounds like a new tune to me. I feel like some tunes can be stuff that comes out of our head from listening to music. We hear a lick or a melody that sticks with us and maybe our mind rewrites it. I know I’ve done that. Some of Monroe’s tunes have phrases that are very similar to his other tunes.
Since this thread is still going, here's the current version (not much different from the original):
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