Saturday, August 15, 2015
Carroll Bryant On The Radio (KCLA)
Pat Vegas, Acela Bella, KCLA (in Los Angeles, California) And "The Chance To Have It All Show" playing Carroll Bryant music on their Podomatic channel for their "Chance To Have It All - Artists Special" show. It is awesome! Featuring amazing artists such as myself and the great P.J. Vegas, Red Spirit Fusion, Redbone, Beck Black and more. Great music all the way through. Click the link below and check it out. You won't be sorry.
Monday, August 10, 2015
Secrets Of My Songs #9 (Can't Say No)
This is another song I originally penned back when I was in the navy. In my last segment, I told you about a girl from Michigan who came to visit a family member in Virginia of whom I was friends with and wrote the song "I Want Your Love" for. Well, that person my friend from Michigan visited was named "Bonnie", and it just so happens that I wrote this song about "Bonnie" and her then boyfriend, a fellow sailor and friend of mine from back in the day, Glenn. In fact, it was Glenn who introduced me to Bonnie who introduced me to the girl from Michigan. (See how everything is connected?) lol
Anyhow, one night, or should I say morning? after some heavy drinking, me and my two friends ended up at Bonnie's house where we were to pass out, wake up, eat breakfast and start drinking all over again. However, Bonnie and Glenn decided to have a lovers spat, which took me from sleeping on the couch in the living room and into the kids bedroom where I crawled up on the floor and tried to go to sleep. But their arguing kept me from doing that, so instead, I turned on a little table lamp and pulled out my tiny notebook and started writing down things they were saying. The next day, when eventually I made it back to the ship, I wrote "Can't Say No" from the notes I took. However again, I decided to flip flop the characters. Instead of writing how Glenn cheated on Bonnie, I wrote it as the girl cheating on the man.
When I first wrote this, I did so without writing a bridge for it. At the time, I didn't feel it needed one, but when I was about to go to the studio and record it, I began to wonder if I should add a bridge to it or not. Then about two days before I was to go into the studio, my mother called me and broke the news that she and my stepdad were thinking about getting a divorce. After the phone call, I began writing what would end up becoming the bridge for this song. As for my mother and stepdad, they got back together and about ten years later, they ended up getting that divorce. But thanks to them, and my friends from my navy days, I ended up with a song.
Anyhow, one night, or should I say morning? after some heavy drinking, me and my two friends ended up at Bonnie's house where we were to pass out, wake up, eat breakfast and start drinking all over again. However, Bonnie and Glenn decided to have a lovers spat, which took me from sleeping on the couch in the living room and into the kids bedroom where I crawled up on the floor and tried to go to sleep. But their arguing kept me from doing that, so instead, I turned on a little table lamp and pulled out my tiny notebook and started writing down things they were saying. The next day, when eventually I made it back to the ship, I wrote "Can't Say No" from the notes I took. However again, I decided to flip flop the characters. Instead of writing how Glenn cheated on Bonnie, I wrote it as the girl cheating on the man.
When I first wrote this, I did so without writing a bridge for it. At the time, I didn't feel it needed one, but when I was about to go to the studio and record it, I began to wonder if I should add a bridge to it or not. Then about two days before I was to go into the studio, my mother called me and broke the news that she and my stepdad were thinking about getting a divorce. After the phone call, I began writing what would end up becoming the bridge for this song. As for my mother and stepdad, they got back together and about ten years later, they ended up getting that divorce. But thanks to them, and my friends from my navy days, I ended up with a song.
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Secrets Of My Songs #8 (Forever Things)
This is a song I wrote for my mother. It was originally a poem without music. As many of you may or may not know, when I write a poem, most of the time I hear music in my head to which I write the words to. This is one of those poems where I had no music to it. I mean, I had this music from years earlier and when I wrote this poem, it took a short while before I figured out that the music I had in my head with no poem for it was meant to be put together with this poem. There was about a two year difference from when I first heard the music (inspired by the movie, The Crow) and when I wrote this poem. It was probably a year after that when I put the two together. Some fifteen years later maybe, I recorded it in the studio. It was a birthday present for my mother. The poem was called "Forever Things" and the music I titled, "Flight of the Raven".
But at the time that I wrote the words, she and I hadn't spoken to each other for about two years. We ended up not speaking to each other for close to five years. But she and I have always had a fiery relationship for some unknown reason, other than my assumption that she and I are so much alike. Since our reconciliation in around 2001, we have been doing okay. We had some clashes in my younger days but nothing that ever led us to not speaking to each other. I'm glad those days are behind us. It doesn't matter why we clashed - my writing - lol - but it's all water under the bridge now.
But at the time that I wrote the words, she and I hadn't spoken to each other for about two years. We ended up not speaking to each other for close to five years. But she and I have always had a fiery relationship for some unknown reason, other than my assumption that she and I are so much alike. Since our reconciliation in around 2001, we have been doing okay. We had some clashes in my younger days but nothing that ever led us to not speaking to each other. I'm glad those days are behind us. It doesn't matter why we clashed - my writing - lol - but it's all water under the bridge now.
Forever Things
Flight of the Raven (Instrumental)
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