by lashibes | Sep 5, 2020 | Songs Analyzed
Ian Tyson is one of the best cowboy song writers around. Maybe songwriters. His song “Bob Fudge” is an exceptional example of how to write from someone else’s perspective, cover 71 years, and make it interesting in less than 5 minutes. Writing...
by lashibes | Oct 24, 2018 | Member Library, WP Full Song Analysis
When I hear this song, the image of a Pontiac GTO pops into my head. That’s because the cool neighbor down the road had one. Sure, it was primed in some spots because he was only 17, but it was a GTO. It inspired us all to someday go find a job to be able to...
by lashibes | Apr 21, 2018 | Member Library, WP Full Song Analysis
I first heard “Car Wheels On A Gravel Road” well, a while ago. And, at least ten years before that I bought my first Lucinda Williams CD. My celebrity story? I was playing in a duo called Amelia Earhart Returns and we used to cover “Crescent...
by lashibes | Apr 21, 2018 | Songs Analyzed
Lucinda Williams is a songwriting super-shero. Yes, most successful women who have to deal with a male-dominated industry often are. But, she was one of the first women, no – songwriters, to raise Folk and Americana music to a “maybe Nashville needs to...
by lashibes | Jan 27, 2018 | Songs Analyzed
Having worked in the Cumberland Gap area back in the day, I’d drive up 25E through Tazewell TN, past the Mustang Lounge, and wind my way through the gap toward Middlesboro Kentucky. Why do I remember these places so well? I was standing in the back room of a...