A Long Winter, but worth the slow and deliberate birth of a new song
Posted on April 4, 2010 with 0 commentsIt was a snowy, rainy, icy, windy Winter in the suburbs just outside of New York City, yet it was a blessing in disguise, a silver lining, a luck-of-the-draw, an opportunity-knocks, an all-things-come-to-those-who-wait season, for this cliche-ridden, part-time, free-lancin', good-as-his-last-game, song-writing, unnecessarily verbose guy, often fondly referred to as "me". With so much extra time, watching the white snow, watching the Winter unwind, feeling the virgin, crystalline flakes mock me, as I stared out my window at the icy streets, I took a 3 minute, 3 verse song, and stretched it, and stretched it, and stretched it even more, to its present status of grandeur, a 17 verse tune, over 9 minutes, 30 seconds, from beginning to end, capturing more than a few moments in time; check out these raw track clips, blemishes not excluded...........