Live at HVSS Music Night, 2016/04/29: 2. Nothing Compares 2 U
Written by Prince I don't have the rights for this please don't sue me
View ArticleJH is: One-Take Bartlet, Volume II: 9. Long As We Last
Written the morning after the 2016 election.
View ArticleJH is: One-Take Bartlet, Volume II: 8. Untitled (February Sunday)
Sometimes it's a cold, grey Sunday in the shortest, darkest, coldest month, and you're alone at home, and a little under the weather, and you really need someone to call you a wah-mbulance, but no one...
View ArticleJH is: One-Take Bartlet, Volume II: 7. Today is Today
For Hank (2/26/2016). My wife had been away and was coming home, so I was cleaning the house back up. At the same time, her brother was having a baby, and I started thinking about all the things you do...
View ArticleJH is: One-Take Bartlet, Volume II: 6. The Songs I Never Sang For You
The first two verses of this were written to land on a different chorus, but as I examined it, "The Songs I Never Sang For You" was both a better lyric AND a better hook than the chorus I had been...
View ArticleJH is: One-Take Bartlet, Volume II: 5. I'm A Stranger Here Myself
With apologies to Willie Nelson. Written from the title (which is a trick I like to use that fails way more often than it succeeds), there's like seven more verses to this song that are (in my opinion)...
View ArticleJH is: One-Take Bartlet, Volume II: 4. If The Evening's Gone
I've been trying both to write less strummy tunes, and to write songs not in G voicings (regardless of capo position), because it's a huge crutch for me. This was written on my new-old,...
View ArticleJH is: One-Take Bartlet, Volume II: 3. Running Out the Clock
I've written about nineteen different lyric sheets for this guitar hook, and this one maybe, maybe is the right one? I got the newest Phish album, Big Boat (underwhelming, and that's coming from somone...
View ArticleJH is: One-Take Bartlet, Volume II: 2. Citywide Serenade
Every Philadelphian will recognize some of this, through a hazy blur of memory. How many Citywides do YOU drink on a weeknight? Fewer now than I used to, I'll admit... Based in part on a particularly...
View ArticleJH is: One-Take Bartlet, Volume II: 1. Babes in the Woods
Written quite literally on the heels of "Untitled (February Sunday)"; in testing the former, I strummed the last chord, and immediately thereafter began instinctively picking out the opening...
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