I’ve been home for a few weeks now, and I have been trying to adjust to life beyond the suitcase. In the process of sifting through my endless possessions, relics, and heirlooms, I dug out an old family guitar that belonged to my great-grandmother’s sister, Fay Clark. I tuned it to open C, and it’s been real nice to sit in my little room and try to teach myself something new.
A beautiful Fleet Foxes video!
Made by eldest brother to Robin, Sean Pecknold.
I’m really looking forward to hearing the rest of their new record.
What I’ve heard so far has left me wanting more…
I’ve been sitting in my little room singing cover songs today:
“Pretty Good” – John Prine
“Rhiannon” – Fleetwood Mac
“I am a Child” – Neil Young
And “Stop Draggin my heart around” – Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty duet
Rhiannon has 3 chords. Am C and F. Hit songs can be simple!
I also bought Stevie Nicks’ “Bella Donna,” which was released 2 years before I was born, and it’s the first time I’ve heard it in it’s entirety. I discovered that you can sing the melody for Neil Young’s “Ohio” over the chords of “Stop Dragging my heart around,” which is pretty crazy….
I’m back from New York, and suddenly feel the quiet that is Portland.
While walking the city streets, this line circled & sung endlessly around my head:
“New York is cold, but I like where I’m living, there’s music on Clinton street all through the evening” – -
Cold it was.
I miss the buzz & chaos of it all.
Tom & I think we’d like to live there for a month or so, don’t think we’d last much longer. There’s something to the place: there really is.
Now, I’m in a room.
Waiting for the songs to be released, so I can move along the road.
March is a waiting room.