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[special note: i'm playing a show on monday, feb 2 at the pub at Vios. it's at 65th st and 20th ave below third place books in north seattle. show starts at 7pm. i'll be playing some billie burke estate tunes, a few monday songs and some covers. it's [...]
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i’ve had the basic melody and chords for this song for some months now. the original chorus ended “she’s a star of stage and shingles vaccines,” which i still enjoy, but try as i might, it just wouldn’t spawn any lyrics i liked.
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the seventh installment and first of 2009.
i wrote and recorded this one a week before the first monday song was released. the musical idea that kicked this off was the opening piano with the A moving up to an unstable Dmaj7. (it’s somewhat rare for me to come up [...]
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after starting with three heavy songs in a row, number four is something of a palette cleanser.
it’s an homage to homages: a kind of 20s music hall number that was a favorite of the psychedelic popsters of the later 60s. mccartney was a master of the style (”when i’m [...]
