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The music for this song came to me in a dream last week. In the dream I was in a huge bed. Somebody pressed play on a portable tape deck and an instrumental organ piece began playing. The cassette tape cover read that it was by Townes Van Zandt. The person who pressed 'play' began bowing violin along to it. I saw a cello leaning on a couch.
Turning around awkwardly in the bed, I saw behind me some kind of crossbreed instrument... it look like a mix between an autoharp and a lapsteel. With my fingers I began to pluck and slide a melody over the drone created by Townes' organ and my companion's dream-violin. We played for a long time and then... I woke up.
Back in the waking world I grabbed a 12-string guitar that I had come into possession of last week, went down to my living room and quickly recorded the music I remembered to my phone.
The demo went to my bandmates with acoustic, 12-string, vocals, and no explanation. When it came back from drummer Andy Lyth, on a whim he'd added an accordion part that sounded exactly like the Townes Van Zandt organ music I'd heard in my dream!
I love the instrumental section after the second chorus. The interplay between four lead instruments each trading moments of musical interest is wonderful and hats off to Thirds for spinning those plates like a wizard.
All BV's courtesy of the dulcet tones of Daz Woodcock as well as some inspired synth touches that reward closer listening in headphones.
This is the last song written for Phase One of the Positive Songs Project. There will be one more song of this album coming out next week which is my 'very special episode' and a fitting album album conclusion before myself and Lobelia Lawson launch Phase Two of the project. Find out more about it at positivesongsproject.org and listen to the other artists involved.
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Better Than Today 2020
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The music for this song came to me in a dream last week. In the dream I was in a huge bed. Somebody pressed play on a portable tape deck and an instrumental organ piece began playing. The cassette tape cover read that it was by Townes Van Zandt. The person who pressed 'play' began bowing violin along to it. I saw a cello leaning on a couch.
Turning around awkwardly in the bed, I saw behind me some kind of crossbreed instrument... it look like a mix between an autoharp and a lapsteel. With my fingers I began to pluck and slide a melody over the drone created by Townes' organ and my companion's dream-violin. We played for a long time and then... I woke up.
Back in the waking world I grabbed a 12-string guitar that I had come into possession of last week, went down to my living room and quickly recorded the music I remembered to my phone.
The demo went to my bandmates with acoustic, 12-string, vocals, and no explanation. When it came back from drummer Andy Lyth, on a whim he'd added an accordion part that sounded exactly like the Townes Van Zandt organ music I'd heard in my dream!
I love the instrumental section after the second chorus. The interplay between four lead instruments each trading moments of musical interest is wonderful and hats off to Thirds for spinning those plates like a wizard.
All BV's courtesy of the dulcet tones of Daz Woodcock as well as some inspired synth touches that reward closer listening in headphones.
This is the last song written for Phase One of the Positive Songs Project. There will be one more song of this album coming out next week which is my 'very special episode' and a fitting album album conclusion before myself and Lobelia Lawson launch Phase Two of the project. Find out more about it at positivesongsproject.org and listen to the other artists involved.
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I am transformed
A man reborn
You can fix yourself
There's no one else
Every time I make a wish
It's always for the same damn
For today to be better than yesterday
For tomorrow to be better than today
Dip your head into the stream
Where it gets wet
And what doesn't kill you
Makes you fat
Every time I make a wish
It's always for the same damn
For today to be better than yesterday
For tomorrow to be better than today
For today to be better than yesterday
For tomorrow to be better than today
credits
from Positive Songs,
released August 27, 2021
Richard Lomax - vocals/acoustic guitar/12-string guitar
Thirds - slide guitar/cello/Nagoya harp/accordion/electric guitar/acoustic guitar
Daz Woodcock - bass guitar/BVs/organ/synth
Andy Lyth - drums/accordion
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