Typecasting Everlasting is the new in-progress twist on Casting Call. Recast as a duet...
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Normal families are all alike...
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An 80's-style rock song, I wrote most of the verses to Casting Call in my head during a long quiet car ride with my mom. I was thinking about the roles we play in life, and how we, not just actors, get typecast.
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A slow blues from the point of view of the misunderstood neutrino, the goal is to entertain not instruct, but no particle physics inaccuracies are involved. Of course it has a saxophone.
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Mountains Don't Care is a song of recovery. I felt the melody should start with a minor 6th jump, and then I just kept looking for the next right note. A folk song at first, shifted to rock with drums reminiscent of Billy Joel's 'Say Goodbye to Hollywood'
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Inspired by the internal rhyming of Dave Carter, and the melodic rhythm of Coldplay.
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A song about survival (and survivor's guilt).
The wheezing harmonium felt like the right chord instrument to set the mood. |
A melody I used to play when I was 17 and a tale of events that mostly happened to me when I was 20. Undercover Band was written during a songwriting class taught by Michael Clem of Eddie From Ohio. His story songs inspired me to try one of my own.
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