Floyd, your such a great song writer! You did a beautiful job on this tune. You conveyed raw emotion in the vocal (to my ears anyway) which many folks will be able to relate to. I like the sans drums approach to this one. It's exactly what it needed. Take care, Torrey
What a great tempo, what a great delivery, what great lyrics.
When I read the lyrics, I never expected this style or tempo was going to deliver those words.
Another hit.
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Great one. I love the melody, the chord choices. Your vocal sounds so natural and good, this song is a good example of why I'm a big fan of your music.
When I was in college and immersed in blues and psychedelic rock I would occasionally frequent a small county line bar...cinder block building with a jukebox. There I first really "listened" to country songs particularly of the tears in your beer variety. It was the mid 60's and the patrons played certain sad songs over and over - not to dance to but as I thought at the time to help purge mountains of hurt.
This song immediately took me to that place and people who "can't stop thinking that forgetting can't be far."
The interplay of the backing tracks and your vocal with the melody and lyric build a powerful tension between hope and despair that never lets go.
The vocal is rich and nuanced and for Janice it brought up images of a Sinatra song - one of those with him sitting at a table...shot glass in hand. If a song can conjure up images ranging from my bar to Janice's then I think you've well covered the bases.
Oh, and then there's the signature big studio production sound that is becoming easy to take for granted.
Outstanding.
J&B
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Simply lovely! The piano and acoustic sound great and are very effective. I liked the sound of the bass. Did you use any plug ins on it. The volume is perfect. This is songwriting at it's best and delivered with just the right of amount of emotion to get that longing, lonely, passing time, getting over it feeling. The production is again stellar. Merry Christmas to you brother. Tom
Simply one of your best. Stellar at every level. I think that PGMusic creating piano supermidis opened a whole new generation of great Floyd Jane writes.
Your talent is multi grammy worthy and it's the world's loss that you aren't a household name.
My late brother always tried to encourage me to keep writing because, as he said, "you only have to get it right once!"
At the risk of rubber stamping all the same things I always want to say about the high quality of your mixes, the unique signature sound of your voice, and your certified word-smithing abilities... all of which are certainly applicable here... the thing that stands out to me about this song is how well the instruments handle the interesting chords. Not just individually, but how well the opening guitar and piano accent the right notes without getting in one another's way.
You really USE the power that BIAB provides, and the end result is so seamless, its impossible to tell what part of the excellence comes from the technology and what part comes from your long list of good selection decisions and editing skills.
But one thing's for sure: your 100% success rate proves that you aren't throwing spaghetti against the wall like most of us... you know what works, and you have an uncanny ability to rearrange that knowledge over and over again into songs that would certainly be hits if you had the sponsorship required to make it happen.
Beautiful acoustic song and yea well done on the vocals.
To be honest I'm still trying and working to get good acoustic sounds like this for a song I wrote.
Onwards and upwards
+1
Thanks
Thanks, Colly. It is not hard to get good clean acoustic guitar sounds out of BIAB. I generally treat them all the same - in this case, a Brent RT that starts the song, then the standard fingerpick takes over after a couple of measure and the strum gets added in to provide the texture I wanted. They are all exported out of BIAB dry, centered and at full volume. Then in my DAW (Studio One) I add just an EQ. Using that, everything below 100 is dropped. That helps keep the low end from getting muddy. Then I add a small bump around 500 - maybe 2 dB - and a shelf on the high side above 2kHz - a couple of dB... That makes the acoustics crisper and they cut through the mix nicely. If you solo them, they might seem a little thin - but in the mix, they do what they need to do...
A really fine vocal performance - one of your best. Like Greg I enjoy getting drawn into the emotional depths on a song like this and you`ve carried it through from the first line. Fantastic guitar accompaniment and production.
Robert
Robert - thanks for having a listen. Glad you liked it...
Originally Posted By: RnAM
Floyd,
Beautiful song, like only you can do ;-) You always manage to make such a very professional use of the realtracks. Top-notch vocals. I do detect a very small glitch in the first two seconds of the intro, something in the guitar realtrack rendering?
Rob
Thanks, Rob. Appreciate that. The small click at the start is Brent's fault - it is string noise - soloing it, it actually sounds like a nail striking a string. I like leaving those kind of subtle sounds in the recording... makes it "real", I think...
Fantastic production and the vocals...wow, Floyd... just fantastic. It's a showcase to me for proper use of reverb on vocals... and you are so tender... great turn-arounds and moving into maj7s.... really sweet...
Thanks, Andy... Realy appreciate that...
Originally Posted By: Joe -PG Music
Hi Jane Floyd, Nice guitars in this! Very melancholy and introspective. Keep up the great work
Joe - appreciate you stopping by for a listen..
Originally Posted By: animarorecords
Hello, floyed
Very beautiful melody accompanied with a quiet band. Melancholic feelings reached my heart deeply. I also love this genre of your music as well as your uplifting music. I will drink Bourbon tonight instead of Scotch. Enjoyed my listen a lot.
Best Regards.
Shigeki Adachi
Shigeki Adachi - Thanks for your continued support...
Absolutely beautiful, Floyd. "I'll stop trying to whiskey myself blind" is a great line -- delivered with the perfect amount of wry humour to make it really shine. You've outdone yourself with this vocal. Great job!
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and thought at the time the words that you so eloquently write in this song. 
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