https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-year-7-week-18-dhodge/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:56:27 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-year-7-week-18-dhodge/#post-329536 Mon, 25 May 2009 06:37:15 +0000
Shady - I use a Yamaha 16 track digital recorder to make these and I have a setting for the acoustic guitar that I usually use. I think it's called "Finger cut" and it's pretty clean with just a touch of echo. Add to this that I'm pretty lazy when it comes to putting these together quickly, so the vocals are on the same setting. That's pretty much me. I also tend to record on two tracks at a time (using two microphones) for both the guitar and the vocal in order to thicken the sound a little bit.

James - since the music of this came together first and since I couldn't get the song "Julia" out of my head when playing it, I just started thinking about Julia and John's relationship. From what I've read in books, she was fairly musical if not as a musician, then as someone who loved music. She would play records for John and they would dance. She bought him his instruments and taught him chords. So this is kind of where it came from.

They liked Elvis, so I tried to go back to the kind of music Elvis' mom might play for him if they had a record player. Elvis had said in numerous interviews that Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a big influence on him, so that's how she got in. By happy coincidence, Sister Tharpe was also supposedly a favorite singer of Johnny Cash, so that gave me two Johns for the price of one.

I'm not really sure where this song will end up going from here, but I'll definitely try to put your suggestions to good use.

Vic - I think my friend Greg put it best when he called my voice "an acquired taste." There are some things that I can nail, but there are also many where I'm a lot better off being a harmony voice in the background. I appreciate the kudos but I do think that I will need to take more than a few lessons should I decide to get serious about this.

Trev - Glad you liked it and also glad I could get "Barnabas" in there! :wink: Hope you're feeling better!

Thanks again to all for listening and making time to critique. And again my apologies that I've been away too long.

Peace]]> Sunday Songwriters Group David Hodge https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-year-7-week-18-dhodge/#post-329536 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-year-7-week-18-dhodge/#post-329480 Sun, 24 May 2009 05:33:53 +0000
Awesome singing and playing , I loved the MP3 ..

I even got a mention in there LOL

Nice piece David

Cheers
Trev...]]> Sunday Songwriters Group BarnaBus RoX https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-year-7-week-18-dhodge/#post-329480 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-year-7-week-18-dhodge/#post-329473 Sun, 24 May 2009 03:55:26 +0000
:D :D :D

Vic]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-year-7-week-18-dhodge/#post-329473 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-year-7-week-18-dhodge/#post-329141 Wed, 20 May 2009 16:35:23 +0000
Nice playing. I enjoyed the listen :D and had to do a bit of googling, but I learned a lot. :wink:

I didn't quite get the story line at first, but after I understood more about the names in the song, it made sense.


I am not sure why you picked those musical references....I assume it might fit what John L. said he listened to, but it was strange with those upbeat type rocker/gospel singer names mixed with the mellow arpeggio gtr playing....my mind had a bit of a mismatch....with those images and words like "blaring" and the song references....then to be in such a mellow style song....I kind of got use to it, but it took some adjusting......

Suggestion:
From Sister Tharpe to Elvis

What if you tried diversifying the singers mentioned each time this comes around?

Thanks for sharing. :D

James]]> Sunday Songwriters Group jamestoffee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-year-7-week-18-dhodge/#post-329141 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-year-7-week-18-dhodge/#post-329133 Wed, 20 May 2009 14:18:24 +0000
Thanks for writing, and sharing.

Shady]]> Sunday Songwriters Group ShadyHarrison https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-year-7-week-18-dhodge/#post-329133 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-year-7-week-18-dhodge/#post-36026 Wed, 20 May 2009 06:00:58 +0000
Sorry about not being around much of late - been very busy with writing and teaching and all sorts of other minor things. It's kind of depressing that I don't get to do much of my absolute favorite thing, and that's writing songs.

Anyway, I had put this music together way back when Week 18 came around. It's inspired, obviously, by Lennon's Julia and, less obviously, Taking Care of Business. Don't ask...

And while I had the idea for the lyrics, every time I'd work them out I'd hit a brick wall. But I exchanged emails with Vic late Sunday night and somewhere in the correspondence, this new idea came out and meshed well with the old idea and, long story short, this all fell together enough so that I could get something to the point where it could be recorded and presented for your critiquing pleasure.

So, without further ado, I give you...

Julia and John
- D. Hodge

The phonograph is blaring at 1 Blomfield Road tonight
Mom and son are dancing for the King
They're all shook up about that jailhouse rock
And the world simply stops when he sings

'Cause every time a song is sung
From heart to heart it journeys on
From Sister Tharpe to Elvis
On to Julia and John

Gallotone Champion is chugging out the chords
At Saint Barnabas Hall on Penny Lane
All Mom's cares melt away as she dances and sways
And the world simply stops when he plays

'Cause every time a song is sung
From heart to heart it journeys on
From Sister Tharpe to Elvis
On to Julia and John

Yes every time a song is sung
From heart to heart it journeys on
From Sister Tharpe to Elvis
On to Julia and John
To Julia and John
Julia and John

©2009 D. Hodge

You can find it here: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=306627 Should be the first song in the queue.

Hope you enjoy it. Now I've got to get more work done... :wink:

Peace]]> Sunday Songwriters Group David Hodge https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/ssg-year-7-week-18-dhodge/#post-36026