Barkeep! Another! ... and pour one for my friend here...
Floyd,
My friend told to me to tell you that he did offer you a drink but you turned him down--at Christmas!!!!!
Just sayin' man.
- depends on how it hits me at the time... you know that...
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
Well... kind of what I was trying for... "Country Sinatra"...
I considered doing a video - all focused on a pair of hands on a bar, a glass in one and a cigarette in the other, taking turns moving up ou t of the picture...
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
Always appreciate hearing what you have to say, Tom. Thanks! I increased the bass in this one because of your comment (and Josie's) on the last one - so thanks for that, too. There is an EQ that drops out the low end below 80 (to clear mud), and a slight bump at 200 to give a little definition, followed by a little bit of compression...
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