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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?