The
songs in the "Publicity" section are as follows:
Be
My Baby Tonight - This is a country song
from John Michael Montgomery. This song was first released
in 1994 reaching number one in both the US and Canadian
Country Music Charts. Got a great chorus. Sing along with
it.
Hello
Again - Very well known song from Neil Diamond.
Featured in the film "The Jazz Singer". It was
nearly not in the film. The song that had been earmarked
was called "September Morn". At the last moment
they decided on this one.
A
little about the songs in the "Covers" section:
When
I'm singing Neil Diamond songs I'm not trying to do an
impression as such but I sing them in his style, however,
there are two Neil Diamond songs in the "Covers"
column I have recorded as myself. Hopefully. Then there
is "Summertime". This is an acoustic version
and is my own arrangement of this iconic song from "Porgy
and Bess".
The
three songs in the "Originals" section are very
different and written 22/23 years apart.
Another
Friday Night was written last year and is
one of my favourites of my own. I've always admired song
writers who write "story" songs so this often
comes out in my stuff (hopefully).
Snapshot
in Time (My Jenny) - Well, we went on holiday
recently (June 2010), to Spain. We flew on a famous Irish
airways plane. Pretty strict on there baggage allowances.
You want to take a guitar, you buy it a seat. No need
to tell you I went guitarless. First holiday without one.
Still, it was a good holiday and I read alot and the inspiration
for this song came from a book called "Under the
Knife" by Tess Gerritsen. Great book but the line
that hooked me was "It was only a snapshot in time,
a single image captured on a sheet of photographic paper".
Just poetic in itself.
When
Will It End was written in 1987 and is also
a "story" song. The lyric has been updated recently
for two reasons. One is personal and the other is because
of changing times. One
line said "I light a cigarette, turn on the TV"
and I gave up smoking in 1991. Just felt it had to be
changed to "I rubbed my tired eyes".
Another
line went "I'm in a smokey bar by half past five"
and as there is no such thing as a smokey bar anymore
I felt I had to change it to "noisey bar". Mind
you, they're getting few and far between but that's another
subject I'm currently working on.
More
sounds coming soon. Better put some fast stuff on here
me thinks.
All
music is protected by the relevant copyright holder.