The Waiting

Songs From Nowhere Project

So, I was down in Austin, Texas- for the record, that is one of two main music cities I would consider moving to (the other is New Orleans, where I once lived for 8 months post Katrina but I digress). Anyway I had played an open mic and someone had mentioned open tunings. I’d never messed with anything other than drop D. I tuned it to DADF#AD and started fooling with it and came up with the lead part and then realized I had to write lyrics. So I sat down in a garden and started fiddling around with words- and what started as a nothing song while I was waiting for a call from dispatch ended up as a song about walking away from someone for your own survival. The recording is pretty heavily produced for me, many many layers. The percussion is a plastic pitcher and a pull saw being hit with a drumstick.