../melody in chaos
21 December 2024
GreenAcres, FL
Squeezed this recording in and among requisite holiday obligations. This track’s always cut right through me in the best way. Christmas songs are tinged with sadness. Not Frosty The Snowman, of course, but a lot of them. The nod to sadness, I think, is what makes so many holiday songs universal.…
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written: 20191113.0927
key: A
time: 3/4
one for the lonely
I set out to write a “holiday song” a few years back, even daring to dream of expanding the thought into an EP I would definitely call A Very Westy Holiday.
The EP’s still a dream, but I was home in NYC a couple weeks back, and dusted off the track, while also dusting off Jolie, my Gibson ES335 modded by Paul Schwartz of Peekamoose Guitars.…
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