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ahhhh  ..... Phil     

can't wait till you put out the song for Bill..... I am sure it will be a classic !

AS far as the inspiration... consider this -  YOU are inspiring to many of us.

I have found that when badeye or Bill send us  to the hit of the week - there a lot of other really unusual but cool songs and performances on the list next to whats playing. I generally troll down through till I find something that strikes me  - then try to figure it out chordwise. Like Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Django Reihnhart, TBone Walker, JL Hooker- Those guys can play !!  etc...  (I'm pretty limited as to what chords I can play - and I don't play lead, but you have both capabilities. )

I'm not sure after reading all that you do that you would have the time to that though.   just sayin - it works for me.

If I were to have you do a song of mine it would be they one that you helped so much on -   Heaven's Door Survivor.  There has never been any mutilation to my knowledge of any song produced by you, i've enjoyed them all.   Everything you change  has a magical touch to it somehow.

Take time to relax and hope something soon moves you to something musically magnificent.

Jim

Awesome !

You can't make this stuff up - it is what makes the best writing.

Makes us all realize that sometimes what we take for granted is what we will miss the most when its gone.

Life's too short to spend time arguing over the small stuff - enjoy it and those you love while you can

Great poem, beautifully written - and I agree - leave the music out - its too good as as it is.

Thanks Beestie for sharing !
Jim

Phill

I found this site on youtube... it has some really good progressions.... when I played along (especially the later ones) I got lots of ideas for songs flying in my head.    Maybe it will do the same for you.

If nothing else, take one of my songs and record it with your spin on it - they always seem to  turn out great.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dsZNku58F6Q

it is a half step down in G   - not standard tuning , - but I played in standard and it still sounded decent.

Jim

Graham

very nice.   First of all - you remind me of Eric Clapton in this performance !!

Secondly, - I was wondering at first about the angle you playing your guitar, then later saw the slide on finger and the resonator guitar -  awesome !!!

Lastly - I'm an idiot for detail when I watch video from all my years of coaching -   who is the guy in the white suit in the picture(painting)  - I saw it in the reflection of the mirror by the bass player. It reminded me of Colonel Sanders of KFC     

anyway - a really nice practice session - I wish I could come see you live on stage someday !!

Jim

great map - so much fun !

Phill,
Fabulous sound with guitar.... voice has a smattering of heartbreak in it... makes the listener hear your pain !
Just the simple words of the chorus... bitter tears, bitter tears - " shakes the soul "   the way you delivered it.

I can imagine you doing this on one of your weekend sets for an audience - and bringing them from a chattering crowd ... to stunned silence by the end of the song.... to a standing ovation !  I know I'd be up  and cheering !!  You know you got a winner of a song when the listeners are excited at the end of a sad song !

Excellent song, my friend - I think one of the best, if not the best I've heard here on chordie.  Probably why it took so long to put together.
It's going on my playlist !
Thanks so much.

Jim

USA  - Upstate New York,  Near Cooperstown ( Baseball Hall of Fame)

Kamzik

here ya go -  even a play along with them if you want

https://chordify.net/chords/virgin-stee … avid-habel 

JIm

Bill

I think I heard at least three songs that were hits later come from mutated versions of what was played in this song.
There are elements of the beginnings of a couple of Johnny Cash songs, the song from the movie ( Good bad , ugly)

Amazing - way ahead of their time.  I think he looks more like Buddy Holly than Woody Allen though .

Thanks for the introduction to some cool stuff.

Jim

Great stuff !

They are magnificent musicians each in their own right, but something special happens when they put their ego's aside and play and sing together for the love of their purpose.  Ya don't see that too often today.

Modern tech is fantastic, but the generations of today are getting robbed  of the opportunity to see great musicians blossom together.
Think about the old tours when musicians would get on a bus together, stay in motels, and travel across America to bring their talents to American stages in small venues - how about the tour that had, Dylan, Cash, Elvis, J.L. Lewis on it ?  Or  Ray Hubbard, Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, and Rodney Crowell ?   I am 100 % positive Badeye can tell of tours of Blues musicians as well that  toured together.   

There's a place, I think it's  Pawling NY  ( near woodstock) that there is now  a similar venue - its in a barn and musicians get together and perform for a small audience. Love to go there some night!

and as for the grim  reaper - F*** him !   As I said in my last song ( heaven's Door- Survivor),  - " I'm looking forward to getting old"   

Kenny Chesney had a great song  - ---> everybody wants to go to heaven, have a mansion above the clouds, everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go  now !

Thanks Bill for reminding us all of how special music can be and how it touches us all in different ways. 
Thanks Doug as well, that was 24 minutes of heart warming !!
Keep the good stuff coming !!
Jim

Brian

Very nice song- I really like it.

Jan - your voice is killer, as I have said before.

Thanks for the listen !!

Jim