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Here's what I wrote tonight...
Hope you're great.....Fun night? I recorded my show this afternoon. It was just Ryan Smith and me, but Tom Herbers, the guy who's mastered my last 3 albums, ran sound. He's in to old vintage redundant word learned in high school spelling i've yet too....uh, where'd we go? Um....Tom Herbers brought a natural echo chamber dealy bob and added it in excactly the right places. I can make you a copy so that you can kind of make it to the show.
Over and out
-John Snell. That's Juhn snell....actually, phinetically it's about right the way it is....
'night. Here's why I turned on my computer
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I'll bet I haven't documented this in any convenient format yet....
Here's the dream that led up to the Cowboy Dream Song:
I was biking along a long, 2 lane highway surrounded by corn fields. (When I was 12 and 13 and 14 I biked across the state of Iowa on roads like this one. The 500 mile-long bike ride was sponsored by The Demoin Registry, so they named the 7 day, 10,000 person ride "The Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa. The RAGBRI. I'm loosing the point here. We're in a dream.) I'm biking along and then on my right I notice a big junk yard. Ragity, wood fence, lot's of old-fashioned cars...This junkyard had acres of southern, non-rusty super old cars all piled on top of eachother. Right away I noticed an early 1950's VW Split back window Beetle sitting on the edge of the grassy ditch hill right off the road. This super-sought after VW was just sitting there pretty decent-looking in this junk yard! "Holey Cow. I'll bet I can get that for almost nothin!!" I said to me.
I got off my bicycle without even taking my eyes off the cars. Turn after turn, row after row of piled cars were more cool old cars and every once in a while another SUPER RARE VW...there were 1953-1957 style VW Beetles with Sunroofs, there was a 1949-1950 2-seater hebmular, there was even a super old VW that I had never even heard of before landing eyes on it in this junkyard! Man! I'd FOUND A GOLD MINE! So of course eventually I seek out the office so I could try to work some business. As I walked inside SUPER PSYCHED TO ASK THE OWNER ABOUT THESE CARS, I stopped dead in my tracks as soon as I entered the shak. I stood there for a second, pointing laizily at the ceiling with my head turned slightly to the side.
"La de dot de du de da de du de du de da.....Love you.....La de dot de du de da de du de du de da....Love you..."
"What in the HECK is THIS GREAT SONG?" I begged the guy at the counter.
The dude smiled and said,
"This is a track from your new album."
That cowboy owner of that dream junkyard gave me that tune. He put it on the stereo and it was right there waitin' for me. Talk about using good bait for a guy like me too~! Man. There's NO WAY i was biking by that place without talking to that cowboy. Thanks Muse!
lyrics
It's a cowboy’s love song...
Tell me that you care for me and Honey I'll be true.
When I settle down at night I think of only you.
And when I'm ridin' on the windy trail and get to feeling blue
I keep a goin' with the hope that someday I will marry you.
As for now it looks I've got another trail to ride.
The coffee that I finished makes me think of yours with pride,
To think your dress and windy hair area waiting for me to arrive
Makes me look way down the trail a hopeful and a teary-eyed.
credits
from The Clock Stops Here,
released December 6, 2004
John Snell - Singing, Humming, Acoustic Guitar
Michael Lewis - Upright Bass
Jeremy Ylvisaker - Back-up Vocals, Crackle Sound
Minnesota native John Snell (the Tenth) started writing music when he was just fifteen, but his musical admiration was
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