Guy Smith | August 20, 2008
I have been doing an obnoxious amount or recording lately, and songs dealing mainly with bad love. This includes a fresh version of One Heartbreak Away From the Grave.
An interesting process occurs during recoding blues tunes. Before hitting the studio, your head hears a very complex arrangement with all manner of screaming guitars, [...]
Guy Smith | August 11, 2008
I posted a rough hack of a 2003 song I wrote when I first subjected myself to the irony of Internet dating … and all the psychotic dementia that can induce.
Titled “Electronic Love” there is enough innuendo to make the lyrics amusing. For anyone who has seen how the net can both enhance and cripple [...]
Guy Smith | July 21, 2008
I hacked out a slightly different version of Cajun Queen over the weekend. It is still a work in progress and I sorely need to find a better drummer than me. For a song that was whelped as a solo slide guitar piece, this tune is evolving in unexpected ways.
There are parallels for [...]
Guy Smith | January 11, 2008
A hacked out a new song this week — a love ballad about broken people in and around the rodeo circuit. Imagine like Tom Waits banging Conway Twitty.
It is called Eli’s, and there is a very rough sketch demo track online.
There is a minor lesson in song construction here (though this tune is [...]
Guy Smith | September 2, 2007
I just returned from a wonderful and sweaty weekend of camping, jamming, and listening at the Strawberry Music Festival. And from this I may have fallen out of love with Lucinda Williams.
Don’t get me wrong. She’s a nice enough sort, and if like me you love gritty tunes that sag from pain, she can belt out [...]
