dhanners623 Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 When a song is broken, you can either fix it or strip it of parts and put the parts on a shelf for use later. "Eviction Notice Blues" is made up of parts of two or three broken songs, with some new material. It was inspired, in part, by Matthew Desmond's 2016 book, "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," about the eviction epidemic in Milwaukee and other American cities. I moved the action, such as it is, from Milwaukee to West Terre Haute, IN. If you've ever been to West Terre Haute, you know why. This is a song that just came out of the J-35 after spending two and a half months with my Farida OT-22 in England. Not knowing what might happen there (it was a last-minute trip for a family emergency) I left the J-35 behind. I'm glad I did; British Airways' policy regarding guitars is all over the map and depends on who is at the ticket counter. I took three different BA flights. On the first one, they said I had to buy a ticket for a seat for the guitar. For the second flight, the cabin crew let me bring it on as a carry-on and nobody said a word. On the third flight, they made me gate-check the guitar. It was in a polyfoam case, so I wasn't crazy about that. (In fact, the first ticket agent looked at the case and said that since it wasn't a hardshell, they couldn't check it as luggage. She told me if I wanted to take the guitar, I HAD to buy a seat for it.) Needless to say, if I'd been forced to gate-check my J-35 in its Gator polyfoam case, I would NOT have been happy.... On a totally unrelated note, I emailed the Gibson service and repair shop to find out if they could refinish my headstock to get rid of the banner and gold script logo and replace it with just the white silkscreened script logo as on the original J-35s. They said they can, and that they'll get back to me with a price. I'm guessing it might be astronomical, but we'll see. Anyway, here is "Eviction Notice Blues": Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortyearspickn Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Good Job. Nothing I could suggest could possibly make it any better. Liked the imagery - her brown eyes were as blank as fresh hung drywall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly campbell Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Another well crafted song DH...I love that 35 if you ever want to get rid of it hit me up. Tanks for sharing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly campbell Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Wit a minute I just remembered your a lefty...Hell I cant play much right handed. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhanners623 Posted March 18, 2021 Author Share Posted March 18, 2021 2 hours ago, kelly campbell said: Wit a minute I just remembered your a lefty...Hell I cant play much right handed. LOL Thanks for the kind words. You could still play the guitar. It is strung right-handed. Just the way I learned to play. The only thing left-handed about it is the pickguard. And that's the original righty pickguard. The talented folks at St. Paul Guitar Repair (in St. Paul, MN) were able to remove the original guard, clean it up, recontour the edge and put it back on on the left side of the soundhole. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lars68 Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 That's pretty darn good for a “leftover song” 😀 We already knew you write good lyrics, and this one is no different, but your blend of rythmic and melodic playing is extra good here. Lars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbpicker Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Wowser.....really .well done. Good tune and great groove. I’d say the rescue was a success. thanks for sharing this tune with us. roger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuestionMark Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Quite a good original song and quite a good rendition of it, including its lyrics and music, its vocals, instrumentation, and beat. QM aka "Jazzman" Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twang Gang Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Good job - I think this is one of the best you've shared with us here! I'd love to see in your next video what your right hand is doing playing chords with the strings upside down. Like Kelly said I have a hard enough time playing the conventional set up!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhanners623 Posted March 20, 2021 Author Share Posted March 20, 2021 13 hours ago, Twang Gang said: Good job - I think this is one of the best you've shared with us here! I'd love to see in your next video what your right hand is doing playing chords with the strings upside down. Like Kelly said I have a hard enough time playing the conventional set up!! Thanks. I'll try that in a video. When I thug myself to play guitar decades ago, I actually didn't know I had the guitar upside down. I learned on my late brother's old Stella, which lacked a pickguard. (Wish I still had that guitar....) I just held it the way that felt natural to me. I got a book -- something like, "The Glen Campbell Guitar Method" or something -- and it had chord diagrams, so I just put my fingers where the dots were. When I first started playing with others, I realized things were awry, but it was too late to change. Besides, the guitar doesn't care how we hold it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.