AudioBlog...Songs In The Key Of 'E'.

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Bigger E. came over yesterday afternoon so that we could play together for awhile before she headed downtown to do her thing for the post-hockey game crowds.

We had been fiddling around with an old Conor Oberst tune but I confessed that that particular song seemed a little too weird to be a father and daughter thing.

Then she showed me how to conquer a great Craig Finn song about being in the East Village, on a roof top, during 9/11. It's a lyrical tour-de-force that could only be a solo rather than a 'Hold Steady' record. Regardless, what we really got into was the actual guitar playing of 'Newmyer's Roof', the intricacies of which were easy for her but not so much for me given that a lot of it was foreign/up-the-neck territory for my fingers.

Anyway, in the end, the song we decided to turn into binary numbers is a Lucinda Williams classic from her 1998 album, 'Car Wheels On A Gravel Road'. 

This one is pretty much all E...

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The following is a description of the tune above taken from a fantastic portrait of Ms. Williams by Bill Buford that was first published in the New Yorker twenty years ago:

'...It’s a bit of mythmaking, by a poet of loss, about a place that’s receding from experience, and that might never have been there in the first place. And Williams knows this. She has never been to Rosedale, Mississippi. She’s never seen the Magic City juke joint, except in a picture book...'

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And, just in case you were wondering, littler e. is home from school this week for reading break...In addition to her social butterflying and dancing the week away, she has also agreed to put aside a little time to conjure up the poster for our upcoming musical extravaganza (details to follow)...

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