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I recorded the guitar track for this over the summer.  It was the first piece I recorded in Cubase that I was really happy with, but somehow I got distracted from recording the vocal track and left it alone for a couple of days.  By the time I came back to it, my computer’s monitor had died a tragic death, just a few months shy of the warranty expiration.  Kudos to Viewsonic for promptly shipping a replacement, but it didn’t arrive until I’d left for a two-week trip to visit family in Detroit.  The day I returned to Corvallis was moving day… I spent the next month living out of a suitcase, and by the time I finally had my own place again, Twinkle was sick and I was in no mood for recording.  So this has been sitting on my hard drive for months, waiting for the inspiration to come back and finish it.

Last night I went out with Erica and her friends to catch a bluegrass show at Fireworks, and by the end of their first number I had my inspiration back.  How that woman could sing!  This evening I finally loaded up the old project and finished it off.  The original Tom Waits demo of this tune is one of my favorite songs, and I know I can’t do the original any proper justice, but I think it’s an appropriate tribute to the man whose music inspired me to really focus on song-crafting again.

Ol’ 55- MP3 download