The Wild Mustangs Perspective on Short Trip
Writing music is therapeutic. Love, hate, anger, frustration depression and joy are communicated in my music. Music is in soul.
Short Trip, is very autobiographical. Several breakups, personal stupidity, and too much alcohol, all play a part in this get off your ass, and sing and dance song. Yet, the lyrics are deeply wounding, but done with a smile and a laugh. It's a deeply layered, complex song.
An upbeat song was my goal. The chorus came first. As I asked why, is this cowboy in such a state, the verses came a calling.
I can't honestly say there's one, there were so many. Kristofferson, Possum, Willie and Waylon, Merle, Randy Travis, David Allan Coe, Alan Jackson, George Strait, and Brad Paisley.
Nowadays though, I focus on the songwriters. The Jessi Alexander's, the Trannie Anderson's, the Jessie Jo Dillon's, and the singer songwriters who have struck gold, Luke Combs, Lainey Wilson, Cody Johnson, Megan Moroney, Zach Top, and the like.
It's got to be in an old school composition notebook. I have five years of song ideas, that I cull from. Sometimes it's a line, other times an idea or observation.
Getting a story into a limited number of verses when you written too many.
When I moved to Arizona, I couldn't believe the beauty of some of these sunsets. I sat to write a love song with the beauty of the desert as a background. Out came Arizona Sunsets.
My heart and my checkered past.
The lyrics come first, I hear the music in my head, once I have a chorus.
When I hear a song that strikes my heart and soul, then I have to write.
To this point, it would be Dark Side of Goodbye. It's a breakup gone sour, and the guy can't seem to stop his decent.
Deep emotions, which evoke love or pain or both. I feel that a great song, touches the heart and soul deeply.
