Sorry to bombard you with yet another version of this song, but I’ve been fiddling around with some very cool home recording software, recorded the song, added some harmonies and this is what I came up with:
It’s not ready for iTunes, but I think it sounds pretty good. It’s hosted on a website called Groove Shark so hopefully the link works.
Anyway, thanks for listening! One of these days I’ll get back to serious blogging.
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UPDATE (November 20th): I’ve been playing around with some home recording software. Check out this site where I’ve posted an MP3 version of this song: http://tinysong.com/NTTe
Hey all, remember me? Sorry I haven’t been posting much lately.
I haven’t shared a song in a while. Today is my 19th anniversary married to my amazing wife. We’ve been together for about 25 years. Some of you may have read this poem that I wrote awhile back. I’ve had a tune running through my head for months and one day it just came to me that this little poem might just fit perfectly into the tune. So I reworked the words a little bit to fit and came up with this song. So HAPPY 19th Anniversary to my incredible wife. Here’s to many more years… as long as you’re with me!
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So that you can vicariously enjoy the whole Brown Road experience and since I can’t think of anything to write about, here’s me singing a campfire song, including all of the outside bird and peeper sounds from the swamp behind us! One of the critters got so loud towards the end, I think maybe it was sitting right underneath me. Maybe it was singing along. I laughed because I thought it sounded like one of those combination music and nature sounds CD’s you can buy.
Sweet Baby James is one of my favorite songs. My Mom sang it to me to help me fall asleep when I was a baby. I don’t really remember that, but I imagine that’s where it all started. My parents had a copy of the James Taylor album that this song was originally recorded on and I would listen to it all the time. Of course, JT is one of the iconic singer/songwriters of our time!
If you’d like, here’s a video I found on youtube of a crackling campfire, that you can look at as well!
You may have to adjust the volume settings on the videos to watch them together, the crackling fire is pretty loud.
Have fun at the Brown Road campfire!
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“I don’t want to go to school tomorrow” my daughter said yesterday evening. Not so unusual words from a 13 year old kid. In fact not so unusual words from any kid on a Sunday night when “the blues” kick in. The Sunday night blues, that kind of sickish, crappy, depressed feeling you get when you know you have to start a new week, especially after a fun weekend. She spent Saturday with a close friend at a local women’s college basketball game. That same friend spent the night at our place and we took them with my son and I to a sledding event we hold every year with the cub scouts. Yes, no doubt a fun weekend and one that makes a Monday morning school day look, by far, less than appealing.
I also used to get the Sunday night blues occasionally as a kid… and lately I’ve been getting them again all too frequently. I keep wondering “don’t us responsible adults eventually grow out of that?” I know it’s a function of not being terribly satisfied with work right now and realizing too that I have let pass some of the creative pursuits (music, art, writing, etc.) that showed their directional signs to me on the roads that I have traveled to get me to where I am now. I was a cellist all through grade school. I gave it up when I went away to college because I couldn’t find the drive to take it to the next level. I used to sketch often but have not drawn anything in over two decades. Of course, I love to write, which is what got me here to this blogging site. The list goes on and on…
I’ve tried not to lose complete site of that part of me, but the day to day often gets in the way and free time is at a premium. I envy the people that have been able to build that creativity into their working life… you know that part of your life that fills up MOST of your days! Not that I necessarily could have made a lucrative career out of any of these activities, they call them “starving artists” for a reason! But in hindsight, who knows? There are so many decisions that we all make each and every day that alter the path that we will follow the next day. More and more I find myself CRAVING the “creative life” and finding it harder and harder to compartmentalize the time spent each day working vs. “creating” vs. spending some quality time with my family, my anchors as they say. I guess I want it ALL, lumped conveniently into one nice package.
Lately I’ve tried to instill this thought process into my kid’s heads. For sure, we have some time before we send them off to college and they begin planning out the rest of their lives! But I want it be be crystal clear to them that the world really is their canvas, that they should never settle on the easy path and certainly never give up on their dreams! Yeah, probably a little heavy for a couple of kids that aren’t thinking about much other than school and sports and video games… and in my daughter’s case… maybe boys (uugh!). But I guess I feel, in their case, it’s never too EARLY to start… and maybe, just maybe, in my case, with the support of my wonderful family behind me… it’s never too LATE to start over!
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The Brown Road Chronicles 
