https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7w52-my-maggie-mcbride-w-mp3/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:39:58 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7w52-my-maggie-mcbride-w-mp3/#post-342337 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:01:13 +0000 Thank you for that haunting story! Now I can predict the content of my dream for tonight... :wink:

At the beginning, the song/the singing remined me a tiny bit of Glen Hansard (and that's a good thing :D )... maybe you would like his music, too.

Cheers,
straycat.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group straycat. https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7w52-my-maggie-mcbride-w-mp3/#post-342337 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7w52-my-maggie-mcbride-w-mp3/#post-342323 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:04:27 +0000
:D :D :D

Vic]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7w52-my-maggie-mcbride-w-mp3/#post-342323 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7w52-my-maggie-mcbride-w-mp3/#post-342322 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:55:13 +0000 it would just take a producer to add some accompanying instruments to give it some more body . . . probably just a violin accompaniment. Ken, it helps if you think of accompanying mp3's as a first rough draft....I'm pretty sure Andrew's (or Marv, short for Marvelous Optimist) musical/production/arrangement skills are well up to adding whatever's necessary to "flesh out" the song. Violin's a pretty good suggestion, though.
I remember a old discussion where you mentioned something along the line that
your song all end up with someone dying. Hah, he even wrote one about MY death - until it was decided I was still alive. I got to play it with him, too! Not too many people can say they've played on a song someone wrote as their obituary.....

:D :D :D

Vic]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7w52-my-maggie-mcbride-w-mp3/#post-342322 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7w52-my-maggie-mcbride-w-mp3/#post-342142 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:59:20 +0000 www.myspace.com/andrewdelaney]]> Sunday Songwriters Group MarvelousOptimist https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7w52-my-maggie-mcbride-w-mp3/#post-342142 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7w52-my-maggie-mcbride-w-mp3/#post-342141 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:39:51 +0000
-marv Still checking . . .]]> Sunday Songwriters Group KR2 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7w52-my-maggie-mcbride-w-mp3/#post-342141 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7w52-my-maggie-mcbride-w-mp3/#post-342018 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:23:33 +0000
I remember a old discussion where you mentioned something along the line that
your song all end up with someone dying.

Three deaths in one song,Good Job!

I would not cut anything. Five minutes is not that long.

Love the mandolin

:note1: :note1: :note1:

John]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Celt https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7w52-my-maggie-mcbride-w-mp3/#post-342018 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7w52-my-maggie-mcbride-w-mp3/#post-342008 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:03:09 +0000
-marv]]> Sunday Songwriters Group MarvelousOptimist https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7w52-my-maggie-mcbride-w-mp3/#post-342008 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7w52-my-maggie-mcbride-w-mp3/#post-342007 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:12:04 +0000 No problem....just suggestions. :wink:
If the details stay, I'd offer another suggestion....Consider changing the profession of the singer....My assumption is the story takes place in a rural or small town and some time before communication of the telephone....so another assumption is the singer is a carpenter as mentioned he is a carpenter's son...as apprenticeship and learning the family business/tradition was practiced in the past....So my assumptions are the singer was a carpenter in a small town in the "old days", but who built coffins? Carpenters....no? and how were the built?....by measuring the length of the deceased. So I assume the singer or his family's business would have been the one's to prepare the coffin; especially for a barrister....which again is assumed is the more wealthy class.

>And it was always pretty clear in my head that the barrister had died. It says so in the song even.... I guess I might try making that more clear. I don't know.

I would think to not make it more clear. It only states that the singer "heard" that the barrister'd died and again it says he listened closely, but if he listened closely, how could he miss that both the barrister and Maggie had died?....For me it works if somehow he got missinformation.....the missinformation works and to keep the barrister alive b/c he thinks the barrister died, but didn't....Maggie visits....he is not shocked b/c he thinks the barrister died....he goes to pay his condolences and to check on Maggie, but when he looks in the coffin it's Maggie not the barrister...

Another reason it was not clear the barrister died was b/c when the singer entered the house, he only mentioned seeing Maggie...no mention of seeing the barrister...

Again maybe just leave it as is, b/c if he knew Maggie died, then he would wonder why a dead person was coming to sleep with him.

Along with Ken, I am wanting to hear more of your music and the other songs you've been working on. :D]]> Sunday Songwriters Group jamestoffee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7w52-my-maggie-mcbride-w-mp3/#post-342007 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7w52-my-maggie-mcbride-w-mp3/#post-342006 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:56:17 +0000
Rarely do I hear a song for the first time and immediately identify with it.
In another time this would instantly be at the top of the charts . . . it would just take a producer to add some accompanying instruments to give it some more body . . . probably just a violin accompaniment.
I am just sorry if this in not that time for that to happen.

I wouldn't cut a thing . . . but maybe that's because I'm still hypnotized by the song . . . maybe I can snap out of it and be more critical . . . maybe . . . but for now I'm going to listen to it again.

I don't know who you are but I'm, again, looking forward to hearing your next song.

I think I read earlier you were working on an album or two . . . would you mind giving me more information on this?
I would like to hear some of your other songs.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group KR2 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7w52-my-maggie-mcbride-w-mp3/#post-342006 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7w52-my-maggie-mcbride-w-mp3/#post-341995 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:30:13 +0000
And it was always pretty clear in my head that the barrister had died. It says so in the song even.... I guess I might try making that more clear. I don't know.

-marv]]> Sunday Songwriters Group MarvelousOptimist https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7w52-my-maggie-mcbride-w-mp3/#post-341995