More or less. And this is what it's looking like:
Jolie, Jolie (Rickie Lee Jones)
Cry To Me (Professor Longhair)
Jericho [as recorded by the Gourds]
In My Time Of Dying (traditional)
You Do a Good Blue (Sonia Barrera)
Jockey Full of Bourbon (Tom Waits)
Reconsider Me [as recorded by Etta James]
One After 909 (Lennon - McCartney)
Big Weekend (Tom Petty)
Big Trouble (Sonia Barrera)
Dirty Old Town [as recorded by the Pogues]
Dead Flowers (Jagger - Richards)
Honey Don’t (Carl Perkins)
Angel From Montgomery (John Prine)
Don’t Think Twice It's Alright (Bob Dylan)
Riptide (Sonia Barrera)
Jack Daniels (Kevin Slattery)
Tom Thumb’s Blues (Bob Dylan)
Evangeline [as recorded by the Band]
Bad Moon Rising (John Fogerty)
Fisherman’s Blues [as recorded by the Water Boys]
Train Train [as recorded by Dolly Parton]
Matchbox (Carl Perkins)
Struck [as recorded by Los Lobos]
Rock Me (Slim Harpo)
Spider Web (Joan Osborne)
Unforgiven (Bap Kennedy)
I Got Loaded [as recorded by Los Lobos]
Sea of Heartbreak (Johnny Cash)
They Call Me The Breeze (J.J.Cale)
...It Takes A Train to Cry (Bob Dylan)
P.S. We have a new website (though it just may lead you back to here—you'll see what I mean—visit us!)
http://www.theWalterMittys.com
08 June 2010
03 June 2010
"I'm So Tired..." "Another Cup of Coffee..."
Those and similar songs will be my soundtrack today.
Late night at "Band Camp" going through our initial dress rehearsal of material for our show at Snowzee's at the end of the month. I suppose everything went as suspected—those few songs that we haven't played in some time and their rough edges that will need to be smoothed out and those other songs that just roll out like everyday conversation—I suppose.
As everything went so late last night, I didn't wait around for the recording to finish downloading to my iPod for my listening review on my ride home.
Yes, that review of what happened "last night at Band Camp" will have to wait. For the moment, it's time for "another cup of coffee before I go into the valley below..."
Late night at "Band Camp" going through our initial dress rehearsal of material for our show at Snowzee's at the end of the month. I suppose everything went as suspected—those few songs that we haven't played in some time and their rough edges that will need to be smoothed out and those other songs that just roll out like everyday conversation—I suppose.
As everything went so late last night, I didn't wait around for the recording to finish downloading to my iPod for my listening review on my ride home.
Yes, that review of what happened "last night at Band Camp" will have to wait. For the moment, it's time for "another cup of coffee before I go into the valley below..."
25 May 2010
LISTEN to this....
You may have heard about our "demo" CD? The show it came from? The art and the changes it went though? Well, now on our MySpace page you can hear 10 of the twelve song samples.
Check it out!
http://www.myspace.com/thewaltermittys
11 May 2010
Call it "Spring Cleaning"...
Last night at Band Camp, we ran through the eight-song Fire Drill Sonia created from our master list of songs we have performed. As we attempt to ready ourselves for a more active pursuit of live performances, this seemed like a good way to keep our backlog well-rehearsed. And it proved to be just that—some songs have not "been played in awhile!" Most humbling.
Then we tried to divide and assign a process for "those other songs." The songs that are in-progress in one stage or another. The "almost there" songs. And the "still-early-in-the-process" songs.
Maybe a little too much "business" in proportion to music for a night in the rehearsal space but I think we have the pieces in place. And to borrow a song title to sum it all up: We Can Work It Out!
Then we tried to divide and assign a process for "those other songs." The songs that are in-progress in one stage or another. The "almost there" songs. And the "still-early-in-the-process" songs.
Maybe a little too much "business" in proportion to music for a night in the rehearsal space but I think we have the pieces in place. And to borrow a song title to sum it all up: We Can Work It Out!
04 May 2010
"Time it moves so fast..."
Maybe later for that song (an old original titled "Remember What To Say").
It was like Spring Cleaning at Band Camp, last night. Time to take stock of all the songs we started and didn't quite finish before we moved on to the next.
Sonia recorded them into our mast set list while I scrawled them onto our swipe-board.
Two takes each. We moved from "Evangeline" to "All Over Now." And because Jim had the accordion on, it made sense to hit our bayou-version of "Last Hard Bible."
And we closed the night with "Tom Thumb's Blues" (and very nice piano part on that).
That was just a small dent in our effort to "finish up them songs." I can see some busy—but productive—rehearsal nights ahead.
~slatts
P.S. Speaking of songs, don't be singing a sad tune this weekend on Mothers' Day—check this out: www.kslatts.com/beatles_sale_.html
It was like Spring Cleaning at Band Camp, last night. Time to take stock of all the songs we started and didn't quite finish before we moved on to the next.
Sonia recorded them into our mast set list while I scrawled them onto our swipe-board.
Two takes each. We moved from "Evangeline" to "All Over Now." And because Jim had the accordion on, it made sense to hit our bayou-version of "Last Hard Bible."
And we closed the night with "Tom Thumb's Blues" (and very nice piano part on that).
That was just a small dent in our effort to "finish up them songs." I can see some busy—but productive—rehearsal nights ahead.
~slatts
P.S. Speaking of songs, don't be singing a sad tune this weekend on Mothers' Day—check this out: www.kslatts.com/beatles_sale_.html
15 April 2010
Jack Daniel's Scat
What do you do when you ain't got your piano player and you need to fill a 32-bar solo?
You scat.
That's what I did, Last Night at Band Camp...
You scat.
That's what I did, Last Night at Band Camp...
01 April 2010
Nursery Rhyme ROCK
I sent this email to my band mates yesterday...
Sooo....
Does the idea of a song based on the words and melody of a nursery rhyme make you nervous? Maybe even, downright freak you out?
If not, I've been overdosing on this full moon of late and Sunday afternoon a weird notion came to me. I heard TEN LITTLE INDIANS in a song. A different song. A Mitty's song. One where Sam the Sham meets swamp. Tom Waits does Nursery Room Nightmares.
Still with me?
Here's the lyrics and chords (I'm thinking A but I put them in Roman Numerals so we can change if necessary):
TEN LITTLE INDISCREET LOVERS
(I) One little, Two little, Three little indiscreets
(V) Four little, Five little, Six little indiscreets
(I) Seven little, Eight little, Nine little indiscreets
(V) Ten little indiscreet (I) lovers
(I) One found out that life gets lonely
(V) Two forgot their one and only
(I) Three must flee from matrimony
(NC) Four don't care what people say.
CHORUS
(I) Five contrived when they quit trying
(V) Six save time and spent more lying
(I) Seven don't see no sense in crying
(NC) Eight won't wait for sunny day
CHORUS
(IV) Nine is fine with doing time
(I) Mine all mine right down the line
(IV) But time and time and time again
(V) Nine ends up with Number Ten!
CHORUS
(I) Ten little (V) indiscreet (I) lovers
(I) Ten little (V) indiscreet (I)
I didn't lose them. No doubt, there was some caution.
It was only the three of us as Jim was out sick. Once we determined the actual key (not A but F#), Paul aptly set a cajun beat going. That was abandoned for a more straight-ahead rock count. The middle-eight got repeated after a space for an instrumental break—and we had it!
A twisted little hillbilly-rock take on a classic nursery rhyme. Maybe you'll get to hear it soon.
Sooo....
Does the idea of a song based on the words and melody of a nursery rhyme make you nervous? Maybe even, downright freak you out?
If not, I've been overdosing on this full moon of late and Sunday afternoon a weird notion came to me. I heard TEN LITTLE INDIANS in a song. A different song. A Mitty's song. One where Sam the Sham meets swamp. Tom Waits does Nursery Room Nightmares.
Still with me?
Here's the lyrics and chords (I'm thinking A but I put them in Roman Numerals so we can change if necessary):
TEN LITTLE INDISCREET LOVERS
(I) One little, Two little, Three little indiscreets
(V) Four little, Five little, Six little indiscreets
(I) Seven little, Eight little, Nine little indiscreets
(V) Ten little indiscreet (I) lovers
(I) One found out that life gets lonely
(V) Two forgot their one and only
(I) Three must flee from matrimony
(NC) Four don't care what people say.
CHORUS
(I) Five contrived when they quit trying
(V) Six save time and spent more lying
(I) Seven don't see no sense in crying
(NC) Eight won't wait for sunny day
CHORUS
(IV) Nine is fine with doing time
(I) Mine all mine right down the line
(IV) But time and time and time again
(V) Nine ends up with Number Ten!
CHORUS
(I) Ten little (V) indiscreet (I) lovers
(I) Ten little (V) indiscreet (I)
I didn't lose them. No doubt, there was some caution.
It was only the three of us as Jim was out sick. Once we determined the actual key (not A but F#), Paul aptly set a cajun beat going. That was abandoned for a more straight-ahead rock count. The middle-eight got repeated after a space for an instrumental break—and we had it!
A twisted little hillbilly-rock take on a classic nursery rhyme. Maybe you'll get to hear it soon.
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