Another day to do battle with the muse, mano i mano. No co-writes, just me and a guitar. Worked on a couple ideas I had going, but didn’t get really far on anything. Leslie came over to get some bills and she took Posh for the day. It was weird not having a dog. I [...]
Well it was supposed to maybe rain, and the sky was a bit pink-ish in the morning, but it held off all day. Walked and did some computer work. Worked on a new song: “Unsentimental” and it had some funny lines. But the whole song, I’m not sure if it works. Went to lunch at [...]
Went to Larry Gottlieb’s and he has a nice studio. He bought me sushi for lunch and we talked and worked on a song: “Supernatural High” and it came out pretty cool. He wrote the jingle for “Subway, Your Way!” and it was 4 chords and 4 notes, and he made like several hundred thousand [...]
Watching “The War” on PBS and man that thing is serious. It haunts me and I can’t stop thinking about Guadalcanal and the death marches and these things. Leigh Nash came over, and she brought a Gretsch guitar and a good song idea called “This Is How I Got Lost” and we wrote the chorus [...]
Walked early then went back to bed. To El Mariachi and everyone was sitting outside and it was like 90 degrees and I was sort of, well, I wanted to go inside. Leslie was there, and she said she was maybe going to travel around with a friend for a while. Grimey said he had [...]
Worked with Jessica on our song “If it doesn’t kill us…” and it’s really good. I mean, if you listen to the stuff we were doing when she first came to town, in like, 2002, it’s so much better, and so much more emotional. I like Keane a lot for that reason, and the Waterboys. [...]
Went to East Nashville to Eric Fritch’s studio. Recorded a song with Greta Gaines called “Say Grace.” The drummer was Steve Bowman, the original drummer of the Counting Crows (and subsequently kind of a hero of mine) and Millard Powers on bass (currently with C.C. and also a hero) so there were no weak links [...]
Helena Johanssen came over. The last song we wrote was kind of country, and I told her when we went up to the studio that I hadn’t been doing much country writing lately. I have this fantasy that the Silver Seas will sort of take off, in some limited sort of way, and this will [...]
Jessica came over and we worked on our song “This Is The Life” and we made a demo of it. It came out good, but after she left I figured out that the bass part was too busy and so I replaced it. To Hopkins for dinner. Hung out a bit with Carl and Karl.