Original Ideas

This evening I was digging through some old music projects on my PC and happened across the original demo recording I did for the song 'Downwind Eyes'(posted in my previous blog entry).

Listening to this version, I can easily hear why the music spoke to me in the way that it did. Good songs write themselves. Good songs turn into bad songs when musicians get in the way and try to shape them into something they do not want to be. I believe that was my mistake later on when I tried to take this piece into a band situation in which it did not properly fit.

In my opinion, you can practically hear the humidity dripping from the slide guitar and visualize the heat rising from the highway as it traverses the flat Mississippi landscape. I tried to capture these emotions lyrically, but this intro clip from the original demo speaks much more loudly than my words.