Check out the song by Jeff Bates called "Watching His Son Going Down"... Another sad song.. If you like Conway Twitty type vocals...check out the song "Somebody's Falling" Sung by Sarah Darling and Jeff Bates.
I like this a lot. Was that real fiddle? It sounds almost like a guitar with an ebow. A lot of emotion in the vocals as well.
Eddie,
That is a guitar you are hearing. I ran it through an auto swell pedal that basically detects pick attacks and replaces them with a smooth volume swell. Makes it sound like a bowed instrument. Some guys can do it with a pinky on the volume knob, but I’m not that coordinated.
Re the vocal: She wrote the lyrics after losing a best friend to cancer, so yeah, she was feeling it when she did the recording.
Thanks for the listen and comment, I haven’t listened to yours yet but will do so soon.
https://soundcloud.com/countryjammer/cold-bricks-below I haven't gotten the tune I wrote to put on here worked out yet...so here is this dark ballad I wrote about a cold winter day in Ft. Worth Texas. Downtown Ft. Worth streets are made of bricks.... It Is called "Cold Bricks Below"
C. Dan Bass-(midi)-34 finger Elec. Piano-(midi)-acoustic Drums-(midi)-drum patch #2 Guitar-372-Acoustic, hank sw 120 Fiddle-618-background, allis ev. 120 Guitar 2-522-acoustic finger picking ev. 120 Recorded thru line 6 spider jam amp onto sd card Vocals me... chorus harmony..me with digitech harmonizer And me playing acoustic guitar on line 6 variax acoustic position 1
A remix? It sounds brilliant to me... and this is a cool thread. Going out to pick up some kleenex and settle in to listen to the other songs here. My two-hankie song; save one for Janice signing off with feeling...
A remix? It sounds brilliant to me... and this is a cool thread. Going out to pick up some kleenex and settle in to listen to the other songs here. My two-hankie song; save one for Janice signing off with feeling...
I've listened to most of the songs in this thread. This one gets to me! I remember it from when you first posted it. Hard not to like a brilliant write with Janice on vocals!
Thanks Dave, I listened to most of the postings here too- as well as yours, Josie`s Missing Me, & Floyd`s Feeling Nothing At All got to me... and David`s Killing Time turned my insides to jello!
There's some true gems throughout this thread. Thanks for sharing guys Now we need another thread called "Uplifting Song Challenge" or something to balance it out!
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