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Written for my beautiful daughter Melissa. Symbolism is not big with the Blues but it shows up in this song. My constant traveling leaves me lonely for the company of my daughter. One night I watched the moon sail across the nighttime sky, sinking in the west. Being in Tokyo, I thought to myself that it is pointing me towards my home, the country of my birth. I play with the form a bit with this tune also, making it a ten instead of twelve bar blues.
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Song about a man waiting outside for his woman to come out. There`s a party going on and he grows impatient. He says, "Come on baby, put on your dress and fix your hair." He wants to dance but she is inside doing whatever women do to get ready. Something I`ve experienced ever since my first date.
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The title cut of the CD, a song about insomnia, the kind of sleep disorder a woman can give you. A slow blues in G, the first key I ever played the Blues in at twelve years old. G is the best key for the Blues because of all the open strings you can use. A lot of players think I`m using some kind of open tuning, but I`m not, I`m just making a guitar sound like a guitar.
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A song about financial misfortune, something most musicians know about.
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Probably the most traditional of all the cuts on the CD, I had the engineer mix it fairly dry.
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Originally written and played on an acoustic guitar, I re-arranged this song for an ensemble. The vocals double the guitar and I play the intro on an acoustic guitar. The lyrics wrote themselves and reflect what my wife once told me when I asked her why she married me, "I couldn`t escape," she said.
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My forte, the medium blues shuffle in E.
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Just a jam song, really. I played a way too long solo on the end so I had the mastering engineer do a fade.
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The only instrumental on the CD, "Bug Lips" is a wacky song. People say it describes my personality perfectly, but it was written for a good friend who I affectionately named June Bug. For those who know my playing, this cut is more of what they would expect of me.
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