Joined: January 20, 2018
Kyle Likes: 5 Songs
My musical skills pretty much peaked out at intermediate guitar student, and that was mostly limited to Travis-picking a few old Piedmont blues and rags on an acoustic. Never played with other musicians to speak of. Never learned how to accompany a vocalist.
Which is a roundabout way of saying I'm pretty damn musically clueless.
As a kid back in the sixties, I listened to the stuff everybody else listened to.
Then in 1973, Woody Allen released a movie called Sleeper and I heard the New Orleans Preservation Hall Band play. The sound of that Dixieland clarinet on those tracks sent me off to the back racks of the record store and to the Smithsonian mail-order catalog, discovering all kinds of music written and performed long before I was born. Everything from Reverend Gary Davis and Mississippi John Hurt to Benny Goodman and Johann Sebastian Bach. I don't suppose I've even turned a radio on since the early 1980's. So I don't imagine any critiques I might offer here are going to be very helpful.
This is my Nashville hymn! It's based on a true experience. I was in Nashville as a tourist and entered a Honky Tonk at lunch time. I was served by a young girl and we had a little chat. Later she entered the stage and sang some of her songs.
The singer on my demo is Brittini Black, one of those demo singers I really don't understand why they are no big stars. She has everything and I'm proud that she sang my song.
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I wrote this song specifically for another artist's project with their producer Rory Feek, but it didn't make the record. It was pitched around for 6 or 7 years before another young artist came to town and finally recorded it. It was worth the wait.
This is the original demo of what became my first #1 country song recorded by Easton Corbin.
Wynn Varble, the third writer is singing the demo.
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