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I wrote this song in the middle of a hard winter, I had given up any job I had to do some touring and was SO broke.... the little house I"d moved into with my love was right on the train tracks. We thought the sound would keep us up at night but then we found it kind of cathartic.....
I think of the song as a sort of lullabye for hard times.
SAXOPHONE TRAINS ...
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This is one of those very personal songs that I'm always amazed that people relate to. I think the melody is the connector on this one. The Summer of 2009 was a tough one, had a great family member laying sick and dying in Baptist Hospital of Nashville, and I spent a lot of time going back and forth. It was a very hot summer - so hot that when I looked at the streets and sidewalks they...
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I wrote this tune with Jess Leary who is a great writer of more straight down the middle - kind of tunage. She co-wrote some huge hits, most notably Where The Green Grass Grows ( Tim McGraw) and Mi Vida Loca ( Pam Tillis)
She wanted to write a song for me, and so she had a skeleton of this started when I came over and the idea that it was about Mercy, something that just can't be...
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One of the things that makes songs translate into goosebumps, I think, is the sheer truth of them. I was going through a rough personal time of heartbreak, confusion, and weird affairs of the heart when I wrote Lonely Sound. I was on a lonely solo tour and driving ridiculously long hours with too much time to think about me and my messed up life. I will often get a song started on the guitar with...
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Saint Christopher carried the child with the weight of the world on his shoulders across the river and back home. I already had this song started,and had been using the name Saint Christopher in the chorus, becuase my good friend Cheryl who had passed away had his image in some of her personal writings and books. I looked up Saint Christopher and read that description and how he was also the...
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Rider Ghost is an older number from my big pile of songs I've written over the years. ( it is also on an older album of mine called Comes and Goes...and has a really different feel to it) I wrote the song during a dry spell from Gigs, music business, and even writing. I got pretty discouraged about the idea of making art into business, and decided to just give up my aspirations to get better...
