Thursday, August 12, 2010
Americana, that’s me!
Reply to an ad for “Americana” music
I answered an ad on Craigslist for “Americana” songwriters (at least I tried to - that’s the week my email was screwed up due to hackers, and I don’t think it actually went out). I looked through my songs and came up with a list something like this (the original email wasn’t saved), saying “Yeah - I do Americana!”
- -Near-blues, like Tracy Chapman- About You Blue
- -Country love song- All My Hungry Moods
- -Christian techno-rock- Armageddon (What is Wrong With Man?)
- -Worship- As We Bow Down
- -Americana banana humor- Banana Boat
- -How to build a boat- Beulah Lynn
- -Springsteenish pathos- Big Old Long Buick
- -A real sign on Windfern Road- Boogers from a Five-Year Old
- -Blues swamp boogie- Bullfrog, You Don't Know
- -Lightly jazzy love song- Circles and Lines
- -80’s Integrity-style praise- Clap Your Hands & Sing (Jehovah Rises)
- -If you’ve read Fred Gipson’s “Hound Dog Man”- Dog Go Howl
- -Redneck humor- Don't Buy Momma a Truck!
- -Piano-driven runaway bride- Eighty MPH Blues
- -Country breakup- Empty Air
- -Contempo Christian/crossover- Every River
- -Christian rock- Going Too Far/A Whisper Came Medley
- -Country heartbreak w/drinking- Hey, Bartender, Should I Drink Out Loud?
- -I always wanted to use that line- Lonely Songs
- -Before Rita and Ike, remember Frances and Allison?- Lord, Don't Float My House Away
- -Jazzy old girlfriend song- My Shoes
- -For my Father, west Texas- Old Kermit Cowboys
- -What else to do with a Texas shrimp boat- Port City Blues
- -Gilbert Allen piano classic, my way (arrgmt)- Praise Lament
- -The thing you gotta do- Sing Out the Blues
- -Ev’rybody knows the scene- Singin' on the Street in New Orleans
- -Send him down the river- Sonny Boy (I Don't Want You)
- -Beautiful Dreamer meets Jimmy Buffet- Tropical Breezes
- -The subtitle says it all- Walkin' the Dog (Alligator song)
- -Floating the river, and the taxman - that’s Americana!- We'll Take the Boat to the Riverside (Let the Time Just Slip Away)
- -Christian pop-rock- We Were on the Mountain (The Voice)
- -While we still can, America!- Won't You Come Drive With Me?