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Loving the Limits
Over the years, I’ve heard some people say that they love limits. Until today, I never realized that I do as well. For me, the reason is simple. Give me a choice of anything, and my overactive mind goes, ” .” But give me some direction and then the choice becomes easy.
What’s really interesting is how this showed up in my songwriting. When Blue Funk was around and I wanted to write blues tunes, that’s what I did. When I heard people make light of songs with few chords, I wrote a couple that only had one. Then there was a time when an email was passed around about “things you’ll never hear in a blues tune.” I managed to squeeze quite a few of those into a single tune.
I really dig the challenge of being creative and unique within the restrictions.
Posted 2011 07 05 at 1:18 PM
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