A progression that was the very first jam session that Mo and I had together with the drum machine, this groove became a really down and dirty Louisiana Blues – style tune when I recorded it at home in the fall of 2006.
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Q.P. & a Cold Tea
For 20 years I worked as a chef,and the feel of a busy night’s service only ever interrupted by a VERY short break for quick pee and a cold tea (a beer delivered to the kitchen on the sly by our food runner in a teapot) is captured in this groove.
Rainy Tuesday Blues
A rainy Tuesday night in November 2006 provided the setting for this blues groove. A friend of mine who is a great bluesy vocalist suggested it might be nice to add a vocal part to the track. I may have to take her advice on that one and re-record it.
Sunset
I wrote this in 1985, sitting on the beach in San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, and it became one of my all time favourite progressions to play over. Originally I had a Dylanesque vocal line and lyrics that went over it, but when I came to first record it in my basement with a little 4 track recorder, I did an instrumental version and loved it that way.
Dawn
Also written in 1985 in San Juan Del Sur, this minor descending progression captures the mystique of the dawn of a new day in the tropics. I used to sit on our porch early in the mornings while we were there, and this was one idea that emerged.