2 Years and Running Pt. 8 -Memphis Blues

I used to struggle with finishing songs. I suppose I finished about 2 out of every 10 songs I started to write, but the last few years the problem has been keeping a hold of the songs I do write. I've probably forgotten as many tunes over the past 5 years as I remember. This journal is helping to some degree.

'Memphis Blues' is one that almost fell by the wayside -I found it in my journal and worked it up a bit after my show yesterday. My apologies to anyone who thinks the performance quality of the recording isn't up to snuff, but this weblog is more for me to keep track of my life than anything else.

Last year when I was on tour with Dark Skies, I got off the tour in Memphis with a cracked rib and some business issues back home. I wrote a bit about it back in April of '06 in a post called Tour End...

I sat in that waiting room for 8 or so hours, there was a horrible, apocalyptic storm going on outside and emergency news reports cut into the sitcoms on the TV bolted to the wall. At least 12 people got washed away by that storm, but judging from some of the people sitting around me waiting for hours in an 'emergency room' I couldn't help but find a slight comfort in the fact that someday everyone's suffering comes to an end...

I got some X-rays and went back to see the doctor in a room that was so disgusting I was afraid to touch anything (and the doctor wasn't touching anything either -including me thankfully). So after that I ended up waiting another 12 hours at the Memphis airport waiting for my flight out.

So, sleep deprived and in pain, I wrote this tune while sitting up on the second floor waiting for security to come and tell me not to play my harmonica. It's surprising how easy it is to write a blues tune when I'm in that state of mind.

Memphis