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So I have this music project I've been working on

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Diggin' was originally going to be the first song - it should be the first song and Ain't Lyin' should really be about 8th or 9th - in terms of the progression being described. I won't bore you with all the thinking that led to moving Ain't Lyin' up front.

Anyway Diggin' is a foundational piece. The album is an abstract representation of the journey of addictions and recovery - it starts with Diggin'. The composite character is burying himself with his behavior. No matter where he is or what he does or how impressive he might think he looks on the outside - inside, he is diggin' - and when he thinks he has sunk as low as he can go - he can always keep burying himself more. I have listened to many stories and it something I have heard over and over (as well as experienced myself). Just like a literal hole in the ground, there's no bottom - you can just keep diggin'.

And the raunchy grungy sound is supposed to represent the guts-ripped-out feeling that goes with that.

Now there is a double meaning which is why I decided it worked as a title for the whole journey. Diggin' also means diggin' into your psyche. Self-discovery. That's the big picture. It goes through the final, terrible night of self-torment, and into the first moment of clarity (I'm in the Universe) and the realization of possibly being useful to others and finally at the end being able to see beauty and smile. (Ain't Lyin' was originally meant to be towards the end since it's about the realization that, just because I've changed my habits, it doesn't necessarily mean the world is going to be all peaches and cream. Get used to it.)

Anyway, that's the idea.
 
Ha ha. I thought it might be something like that. Nice.
Interesting how you mix a bit of that lighthardedness(?) attitude, (maybe even coming from 1st song) when the guy says hmm, this is a tunnel"
and then he starts the heavy diggin. :lmao:
 
Muddy, did the slower tempo song I liked a lot make the final cut for the CD? It's very possible you don't remember which song I'm talking about. I think you emailed it to me like 2-3 years ago.

I don't remember the name of the track. Slow tempo track and slightly melancholy.


:dunno:
 
Before you started describing it, I would have guessed Watching the Clouds Drift Away as it was the first song I more-or-less finalized and I remember asking around for a few impressions at the time. While songs can strike people in different ways, particularly out of context, it's hard to imagine anyone calling it melancholy though.

Maybe I'm in the Universe? I don't remember sending it around but maybe I did. I was puzzled about what to do about percussion for quite awhile so maybe I asked about that. It fits the description. Piano and vocal, bit of cello. Some light guitar and no percussion (but those were more late-in-the-game developments.)
 
Okay, so I have had my little break. This weekend I start the process of trying to sell Diggin'.

No idea what form that will take. It will start with doing some reading about markets.

I am well aware that it has limited commercial potential but gotta try.

So it begins this weekend.
 
No I don't mean that at all.

I mean I got me an actual, you know, book. Made of murdered trees.

A market guide.

Here's what I have learned so far. If I want to be a non-performing songwriter, I would be approximately one billion times better off doing country music.

Pop, also significantly more places to go.

I would be better off doing gospel than what I do. Folk ---> better.

Bluegrass, rockabilly ----> better.

Fokken swing ---> better

Ambient instrumental music ---> better


:facepalm:
 
Had a longish drive so I listened to the whole CD. It had been awhile. 2 or 3 months I guess? :dunno:

Damn, that's good. Surely one of the greatest creations that no one will ever hear - of all time.

Much like Oscar Wilde being questioned by border customs agents, I have nothing to declare but my genius.
 
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You got it out there man?
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I'm methodically pitching it off to a few publishers. Very few reasonable candidates out there. Expectations are zero.

Looking forward to writing some country songs and taking a real shot at some commercial progress. Still a longshot but the odds are a thousand times better. Got a couple song percolating in the old noodle. I'll start getting at them soon.
 
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