Andy Brown and I wrote our first song together sometime around 2002. It was called "Our Night" and was for a musical that we wanted to write called "Aurora". For that song, I wrote a melody for a chorus and wrote out the sheet music. I passed that along to Andy, and he wrote the melody for a verse and provided lyrics for the whole thing. That version of the musical never came together, and I ended up using that song in my Christmas musical "Beyond Bethlehem" (which I will post in the future).
In 2005, we started writing again. At this time, I was still in TN, and Andy was in Orlando. We weren't very Internet savvy, so we did most of the writing via cassette tapes and snail mail. We produced a number of songs that year. We had four of them demoed with the help of the late pianist and band leader Darrel Decounter ("The Storm", "Still", "Pokerface", and "This Burnin' Heart"). I have posted videos for these songs below. I've also included one for a rough demo of a song that we never finished called "In My Wildest Dreams". We recorded this one at home as a rough work track in 2007 with me on keyboard and percussion, my brother, Jordan, on guitar, Mia Diamond singing, and my dad, Gary, on bass and recording.
We've written a lot of stuff since, but it's fun to go back and listen to the songs from the first days of our collaboration....
"THE STORM"
"STILL"
"POKER FACE"
"THIS BURNIN' HEART"
"IN MY WILDEST DREAMS"
No comments:
Post a Comment