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It sounds excellent - great guitar intro, solid vocals, excellent backing tracks. Clever title, too! As for the lyrics... I'm not sure there's ever been a time when banks didn't put the balance sheet first. And Huck Finn has been banned somewhere every year since its publication. Yeah, I'll stop now. But as a song? Awesome!

-- David Cuny


David, thanks for listening. The title actually changed right there at the end of the writing. One of those last minute revisions to the lyrics caused a disruption in the previous title.... the evolution of a song. Yeah, I'm with you on the banning of books. It's been a thing for a long time. I remember our English class reading it out loud with no redactions on the words contained therein, before certain words were verboten and mentioned only by their first letter.

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Plus one from me on the comments by David above. The arrangement, vocals and production value are rock solid--and I love your work on the guitar (the fills are great). You'll get mixed reactions on those lyrics, particularly in our current divisive world. But from the point of view the singer, it's very well done. Nice work on this!
Best regards,

Deej


Deej, thanks for your comments. So far, I've not gotten any blowback on the lyrics or the topics discussed. It wasn't written to be controversial but I realize it might trigger some folks however, that's not the intent. It's a song. Nothing more, nothing less, although it was written, as were many of the songs I grew up listening too in the 60s, a commentary on the current state of affairs in the nation.


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Hacker, very well done. Your guitars are great and the lyrics take us back to a simpler (although still imperfect) time. This experiment we call America is still a work in progress. I agree, very clever title, it threw me off balance in a good way. Was it Dylan who said "These times are a changin" ?

Bass Thumper


Thanks. Funny that you mentioned the guitars. I have been wanting to do a song with guitars as a primary rhythm underpinning. Much like CCR was in their hayday. I started by looking for a CCR preset and found a good one. Kind of based on the guitar tones in Proud Mary, Have you ever seen the rain and a few other CCR tunes. The lead was a factory preset tone that I edited to be closer to the gritty tube sound I have always liked. A bit crunchy but smooth, with some teeth when you need the bite.
Regarding the title..... yeah, its not that famous "Here she comes, Miss America" is it?

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