Thanks to everyone who listened and commented. Rob, Ember, Tom, & Belladonna...

I just reposted the song with a new version. Essentially, I forgot I had pulled the guitars down in the solo section to check something out and forgot to return them to normal before I did the export. To my ears the solo kinda sounded empty or sparse and seemed to lose some of it's energy and drive... so, I put some happy little guitars back in.

For me, I love to tell a good story in a song. And hanging around with a few cowboys back in my club band days provided plenty of songwriting grist. This isn't in a song yet, but one of the guys, a big black cowboy who could have been an NFL Linebacker in another life was in the saddle bronk competition. They score both the cowboy's ride and the horse's bucking. Well, his horse came out of the chute and didn't hit the first buck.... just ran around the ring. Of course that put him way down on the list with the guys that were bucked off right out of the gate. He got off and punched the horse, from the way the story was told in the bar, the horse fell down. I wasn't there so..... could be a fish tale too.

I've always had a thing for rodeo songs. I mean, really, what kid growing up didn't dream of being a cowboy riding the rodeo? Writing songs about it is as close as I want to be these days to anything that's trying to throw me off it's back.

The writing.... I think it was maybe 2 hrs of work.... and then a few inspired changes of a line or a word here and there. "Killed two men" became "crippled two men" because I think they retire a bull if it kills the rider. The more guys it hurts, especially seriously, the badder the bull's reputation becomes. When things flow smoothly, the writing is an amazing experience to be a part of and this was one of those times.

Again, thanks to everyone who listened.

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 05/11/18 03:01 AM.
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