Sometimes It’s Easy
Everyday Music Every Day #17
This is the 4th song from this semester from the songwriter group.
I, of course built up a couple different tracks: one on the Teenage Engineering riddim sampler, another on the SP-404. And then I ended up just doing an acoustic number, and it turned out great. (OP-1 in there too.)
This week when I was on vacation, I made a little jam using the 12-bar blues (so I always knew where I was the whole time) — not to make it bluesy, but just using the form. That always works, by the way. Makes things sound kind of classic.
I realized I couldn’t sing over it. Maybe because I wrote a ton of words. A whole Subterranean Homesick Blues–style thing about the hotel we were staying in. Which was ask is a beautiful spot, but it was having some problems this past weekend— they’ve since made up for it, which is also wonderful.
Then last night, when I was thinking about this song, I wrote a bunch of words based on a Mojo Nixon podcast I was listening to. He was giving people the funniest names in the world. (I’ve been a fan since the 80s.) I came up with some J-macho name (for myself) and that kind of set me off — using an “oh” at the end of every line motif — and it all came together.
Worked on the words last night and this morning, then came home an hour or 2 early from work to get this done because I’ve got a show to go to tonight. And voilà, here we are. Very happy with it. Feels great.
I did the old iPhone demo into the SP-404 and then mastered in Ableton.
Sometimes it’s easy.