Due to the snow Craig has no power. He asked me, Bluesman Jay to write this month's blog. I didn't really think of writing a blog for the Calendar Project, but things happen. Here's my first, and I'm guessing my last blog post for the Calendar Project.
This month's song is an old one that Craig had hanging around. Actually I remember when he wrote this song. I remember at the time thinking, “Wow! I don't know if I could ever write anything like that”. The reason for that thought was during the chorus there's this little run of notes. At the time it was the most amazing thing to me. I remember one other thing about this song. Craig was playing an open mic at the Java Hut (which I don't think is there anymore) and he asked me to come along. He asked me if I would play mandolin on this song. I said sure. When we got there Craig had this cool idea that I would walk up to the stage half way through the first verse and join him on stage. That's what I did.
So when Craig said we were doing “Hold On” this month I said to him, “I'm going to play mandolin on it”. Other than that I didn't have any thoughts for the song. Craig wanted some percussion. Once we started talking we figured on the Tambourine, Egg Shaker, and hand claps. Craig recorded up the guitars, bass, vocals and then sent the song off to me. I added all the percussion and the mandolin. As I was adding the hand claps Craig called. He kind of wanted the song to fall apart into applause. So I tracked my hand claps 5 times, and had them turn into applause at the end. It was a little bit of a bitch, but in the end I think is sounds great.
So without further wanderings down memory lane, for your listening pleasure here is “Hold On”
