Karly's Christmas by The Keller Trio

The inspiration was I wanted to surprise my wife with her own Christmas song on Christmas...having never written a song, not owning a single instrument, and not being able to read music. So I enlisted my Dad and my brother who live multiple states away; we did this all through email. I recorded a melody on my phone, my brother put some chords together, and my Dad put it into Band in the Box and, due to my lack of recording equipment and the central casting of my Dad's voice as "A guy who definitely has a Christmas album", recorded the final voice track. We had so much fun playing with different styles for a song that doesn't exist yet. And I thought we'd be tinkering with the instrumental solo for weeks, we really just had a hard time picking our favorite instrument to use. The lyrics center around wanting to leave the city for Christmas, there's inside jokes but I'm hoping they come across as nice sentiments as well. On Christmas day I had a "full backing band" and a version that we could dance to in our sweatpants at 4 in the afternoon.

Notes from the producer/my Dad:
All accompaniment is done exclusively by Band-in-a-Box using “Real” styles and BIAB solo generation.

Vocal recording, processing and final mixing with the single stereo accompaniment track from BIAB is done in CakeWalk Sonar. No effects were added to the accompaniment – it is Vanilla BIAB.

The style is BIAB style _JFREDMD

Lyrics:
I know the city's getting old
We left family back at home
Christmas can get quite cold, dear
But I'll be right here
So darling turn the lights down low
Pour the wine and let it snow
We'll forgo the mistletoe, dear
We'll stay right here

I'll hang the lights
Times Square might be nice
Good point, never mind
We'll order dinner online
You'll smell the wreath
Lectric' blankets when we sleep
Come cuddle next to me
Every night is Christmas Eve

(Instrument Solo)

So darling turn the lights down low
Pour the wine and let it snow
We'll forgo the mistletoe, dear
We'll stay right here

Last edited by KellerTrio; 04/20/18 10:59 AM. Reason: Lyrics added