This Might Tickle Just a Little

The eleventh song from “Life’s a Love Song” is a funky blues number with funny lyrics.  “This ain’t no ranch in Cukamonga, no time to reheat your chimichanga.   Just a redneck samba, I’m a little country and sometime’s it shows”.

Randomly enough the second verse is about Columbus, Georgia even though I wrote this a few years ago.  Since then I’ve worked and stayed in Columbus the equivalent of about six months.  It’s a nice city with a cool river running through the down town.   And it has a fantastic tennis facility that I frequent often when I’m there.

Anyway, I’m playing all the instruments on this with John Kell adding the sax embellishments.   I recorded it in Asheville and on the road in Statesboro, Georgia while building a megawatt solar project.    Mastered by Ricky Rodriguez at Bomb House Recording.

The pic below is an article written about my old band, Parakeet Nelson for the Columbus paper back in the day.  We used to have a regular gig there and also played the historic Bradley Theatre one time.   The header pic is of my dogs in Columbus after getting filthy on the solar site that day.

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Crazy or Crazy in Love

“Are you crazy, crazy, crazy in love or are you just crazy?” #8 changes styles again and picks the pace back up with a little southern rock guitar thrown in.

I finished this song in a job trailer in Nashville, Georgia (wishing I was in Nashville, TN) while building a six acre, one megawatt solar farm.  I put some pics of the job trailer below to show how hardcore it was.  Usually I’ll get a pretty nice one, but when you are in an extreme rural area, sometimes you gotta take what they give you.  Recording in this thing at night in the middle of nowhere can actually get a little scary, especially when it’s raining and you’re not sure your truck can make it down the half mile mud pit between you and the highway.   Needless to say, I made it out (with this song in tow).

I also figured I’d put another pic of Joy since the baby pics seem to increase my blog traffic times three.   Thanks for listening!

Georgia Solar

Make shift recording studio

Rude job trailer I recored in after hours.

Joy is always ready to rock!

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A New Sport for Prime Time

The next song off of ‘Risky Biscuits’ used to be our most popular live song in the Athens era Parakeet Nelson heyday.   It’s also my Dad’s favorite song by that band!   This was recorded live and features incredible solos by John Wayne Tuggle, Gary Hartle, Mike Elam, me (harmonica) and John Kell.   Thanks for listening!

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Black Sheep in the Family (song of the day)

Are you the black sheep in your family?

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If You’re Lucky Enough (song of the day)

A few random snow flakes falling in Atlanta and I’m wondering where the last year has gone.   And I’m wondering where the next year is going?

Smellin’ Good (song of the day)

This is consistently one of our favorite songs to play live.   It’s a funky funny blues number.  Thanks for listening!

Running Wild

Off to Powder Springs, Georgia.  For some reason that reminded me of this silly southern rock song I did last year.

Crazy or Crazy in Love

Rough start to the work week already.  I think I need an injection of feel good music.  Here it is!

Sunday Afternoon Blues

This is the second song I wrote last year out of 365. It reflects these lazy Sunday afternoon’s like today where you wish you had one more day of weekend before it’s back on the grind on Monday morning. Thanks for listening!

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It’s Not If You Can, It’s if You Would. December 27th

I get my blues jam on today for my final week of songs.  What a year!   I’m supposed to be in Atlanta but I’m stuck in Asheville.  I guess I was meant to spend my last days in NC actually in NC.  I hope you’re not stuck where ever you are.