Influences: Joni Mitchell, Gregory Alan Isakov, Nick Drake, Sara Barielles, Taylor Swift, James Taylor, Lisa Hannigan, Ben Howard, Iron and Wine, Lucy Dacas, Madison Cunningham, Lennon Stella, Jacob Collier, Bon Iver, Lord Huron, Sarah Jarosz
I am back for year 3! I write on guitar and piano. I am primarily a finger style player and love playing in different tunings. I also love collaborating, both by turning your lyrics into songs, or by creating lyrics and a melody for your instrumental track. One of the very best parts of FAWM for me :) The second best part of FAWM is getting to listen to so much wonderful music and seeing such creativity! I love to listen and to comment, and am inspired by all of you.
#1 | A Hundred Days |
28 Feb 2022 |
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#2 | The Bench @monty |
16 Feb 2022 |
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#3 | More Than Enough @bobskyyoung |
10 Feb 2022 |
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#4 | It's Over |
13 Feb 2022 |
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#5 | It's About Time @daveyboy103 |
13 Feb 2022 |
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#6 | Sing, Sing, Sing |
14 Feb 2022 |
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#7 | Maybe It's You |
12 Feb 2022 |
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#8 | My Man Of Few Words @greengrassgirl |
13 Feb 2022 |
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#9 | Same Ol' Song @acousticmaddie |
10 Feb 2022 |
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#10 | A Tiny Crack |
14 Feb 2022 |
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#11 | MAD |
16 Feb 2022 |
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#12 | Thief @n24 |
16 Feb 2022 |
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#13 | Our Song |
11 Feb 2022 |
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#14 | Without You |
11 Feb 2022 |
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#15 | It's About Time (with Words) @daveyboy103 |
7 Feb 2022 |
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#16 | The Window |
18 Feb 2022 |
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#17 | The Reason You Breathe @crisp1 |
9 Feb 2022 |
@sheslin Thank you so much for your specific comments on what you liked about Ghost of a Chance. I agree that @Gwyn really did a fabulous job. I write the lyrics and voila! He comes up with all the rest and I am always delighted! Thank you for your comments on our collab.
Thank you very much for giving Tiny Grass and Together a spin and for leaving such generous, detailed comments, Susan. I appreciate it. :)
Thanks for the visits and kind words, I want to respect your stated #tit4tat limit, (3) but feel free to continue on with our excanges with wild disabandon whenever you choose. :)
If I don't see you/hear you sooner, I'm hoping we cross paths during 5090! And I wish you happy tit4tatting ahead!
Susan - thanks so much for your thoughtful responses to Demolition Expert and Someone Forgot to Tell Me. I love how clearly you see into the lyrics. I’m enjoying listening to your songs and look forward to hearing the rest. I’d love to have you work some of your magic on one of my lyrics some day - at FAWM ‘23 or 50/90 unless your still in business this month.
Thank you for your kind comment, and indeed the compliment - there will be a spot for you on my dance card next FAWM (and potentially several in 5090, if you take part in that).
Thanks, yeah that song was powerful... We should do something next year!! xoxo
Wow Susan, thank you for all your comments! It’s such a delight to receive such lovely feedback and I really appreciate all your input and thoughts!
Thanks for the comments on My Lare Winter Heart. Liz's lyrics just sing off the page. This was my first collaboration and Liz made it an amazing experience.
You're welcome! Some people join 50/90 in July - September for that reason. I probably won't cause I have too many things on my plate.
Thanks a lot for listening and commenting! I am honoured to read your words about songwriting in many genres :) it's fun you picked the soft side to listen to. This FAWM has been very dark and heavy. I plan to rerecord most songs in larger teams and better quality in the next months.
I didn't understand the morph challenge until I tried one. Basically you listen to the song of the person before you and modify 50% of the song. You could write bew lyrics, change the chords, instruments, whatever. @nateger did an acoustic jazz track so I took some of his chords, some of his lyrics but changed the overall mood. The next one does the same with my song. It's very challenging but fun! Maybe just pick a morph chain and listen to all songs from beginning to end.
Thanks so much for your comments on "Let's Sit. . . " I am folky to a fault, haha.
Hey Susan! Thank you so much for your kind feedback on The Memory of Everything. I hope that this year has been outstanding for you. Congratulations on finishing in year 3! May the FAWM be with you ALWAYS
Happy Fawm. Have a good year creating
you're welcome for the support-i don't know as my song influences actually show up in my music but they are there nonetheless!! and yes i really liked A Tiny Crack!!
Thanks for your nice comments on Thumb-body Special, Susan, and for the well wishes. I suspect it may need editing if/when I put it to music, but for now it was a fun diversion. "Write what you know," right?
Thanks Susan, it has been such a pleasure to have worked with you and gotten to know you better. I’m very proud of our collaboration :)
The Reason You Breathe is all yours, Susan!
Well, the track would have to wait. My recording was on my phone. I just had trigger thumb surgery so I can't play guitar for a week or two. I don't mind doing that later but in the meantime I could just send my chord chart and you can see what you can do with it. I'll send it along and try it if you like. If it doesn't work for you, I'll try plan B when I can play again.
Hi Susan. Thanks for your very kind comments on A Seaside Chat. That would be great to hear a version from you. Do you want me to email my chord and lyrics chart or do you prefer to "interpret?"
Thank you for the comments you gave to My nerdy mate
Set you as a collaborator on It’s about time
Please go ahead, be interested in hearing it
I added you as a collaborator on The Bench. Thanks for taking it on.
P.S thank you for your comment on my recent lyrics, yes you totally understood the meaning, it is conflicting that significant people pop into our heads on their birthday even if they weren't nice. I'm trying something new today so we'll see how that goes!
Ahh I'm glad to hear that. Thank you very much x
Amazing! I’m excited to see what you come up with :)
Thank you, I really appreciate your kind comment and I hope your family member is ok <3 Sending you love and support x
Hey thanks for the lovely comment, I’d love to collab if you wanted to do the music :) I’d be pretty happy for you to interpret the music however you’d like, but this is my first collab so I don’t know exactly how it’s done!
Thanks for the lovely feedback!
They are all good but the episode i got my line from was season 3 episode 9 called funhouse!
The show was called Lie to me! Old now! But if you have not seen it its great! One of my ever favs
Thanks for your encouragement!
Thanks so much for your comments on Grasping at Love!
Thanks for your comments on a few of my songs. I truly appreciate them.
Thank you SO much for your heartfelt delivery of My Man of Few Words. And I love the piano, too. Thank you, sheslin!
Glad you were impressed by my Collab with Liz: "I still want you"
Many thanks for your listen to After The Storm. I loved your comments.
Thank you for the listen and kind. words. Glad you liked the tune. Hope you're making the best of FAWM. Sounds like you are. Great!
Thank you for your lovely thoughtful comments on my song Inside Out - tuning was altered on a steel string, Joni of course was a fast at it, as you noted.
Thanks for your comments on my songs On the Road to Somewhere and Then Morning Comes. I look forward to listening to more of your songs soon.
Susan!! You know how much I value your feedback! Kimbra vibes?! Ur gonna make me cry lol thanks for listening, I’m so glad it could resonate. Love ya!
Hey thanks so much for your comment on my Scottish song! :
Thanks for your kind comments on "We Don't Have a Clue"!
Thank you for the kind comment! Really glad you enjoyed it :)
Thanks for the listen and comment on my collab with Tams, 'We Don't Have a Clue'!
Thanks SO much for your kind comments on Given Time! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Btw, I see that you are in Elliott City. I lived in Anne Arundel Co until 6 years ago when my wife and I moved to Cambridge MD. Small world, eh?
Susan, I LOVE what you did with My Man of Few Words! Such a lovely delivery, and the piano is just right. The song ends, and then I immediately hit Replay because I don't want that mood to end. Thank you so much for bringing your vision to this lyric. I'm very pleased.
Thanks for the comments on Weather Report! You're right, it's an alternate tuning: a variation on an old time banjo tuning I like: CGCGCD.
Thanks for the generous thoughts on "Enough"!
Thanks for you lovely comment on my song!
Thanks for the kind words!
Thanks for your comment, and amazing that you also grew up in the house of cleanliness! I’m glad you were able to relate to the importance of allowing the mess!
Thanks for your comment. Yes, we are family here on FAWM :)
Thank you so much for your lovely comment on my song! I've fallen off the wagon a little bit due to some extenuating circumstances but hopefully will carry on soon. Comments like yours are really motivating :)
Thanks for listening to "When Summer Comes Home"!
I love using parallels and repetition in my lyrics, so once I start something (like starting the song with something about the summer) it feels very natural to then talk about fall and winter, especially in a song where I'm thinking back and then also looking ahead to the future.
I appreciate you taking the time to listen and comment!
Thank you Susan for your kind words.
Hi! Thanks again for listening and commenting on Dear Little Me. I'm glad you liked it!
Thanks for the listen and comment on Burn.
Thank you so much for commenting on "Lightning Bugs". <3
Hello Susan!! Thank you so much for stopping by to listen to The Gunfighter! And thank you for busting the ZONG!!! I appreciated your comments so much!! Thanx again!!
Go for it!
Thank you for your comment on my song Run (While you can)! It's really encouraging. :)
Thank you for your kind words about Temporal Drifter :)
Hi, Susan! Thanks so much for your kind comments on “Left Ankle Blues”!
Thanks for your comment, Susan. Yeah, the We Can Work It Out is a pretty sophisticated piece of work.
I'm looking forward to checking your songs out!
Hey! Thank you for your kind Woods and of course you can grab it .I look forward to hear it..
Changed the song a bunch of you wanted to relook, ‘talk about the weather instead of complaining to me’
Thanks for your kind feedback.
hi, it's not that about a loss for the perfection concept idea that i had, I'm working on so many at once and well these got finished first, sometimes new ones come about working on something else and that get's done first... I'll get back to you when I get it done~ I'll brought it to the forefront of my mind letting it linger and simmer for some inspiration to write about it hoe you'll like :)Thanks for your comment though on the 'Talk about the weather instead of complaining to me' & 'Duct Tape' ~
https://fawm.org/songs/127451/ Would you like to take on those lyrics or wait for others?
Thank you for your lovely comment on "Good Hope"!
Thank you for your lovely comments. I have only been writing for a couple of months but am totally hooked.
I love your bluesy picking style
A friend of mine is looking at Guilty for a collab so off the table at the moment but honestly appreciate your enthusiasm.
Always up for a chat and a chance to make something new though
thanks for your kind comment
thats not a guitar but a Turkish baglama
Thanks for the kind comments on More Than Enough.
FYI, I do have a cadence in mind for it and I'll probably write music for it as well (I need to be in a different head space for that). But...if you want to give it a shot, I'm all ears :)
I think a common thought in that thread is to not give the first song that much thought, or you might get bogged down and it could affect the rest of FAWM. That's definitely my main reason for going with the surf style, which comes out of my guitar noodling pretty quickly. For the 5/4 one, I did wake up with the title in my head, "Book 'Em Dano (Hawaii Five-4)", which directed me to 5/4, but even then the song itself didn't stay there. I just kind of went in and out of time signatures, wherever the song took me. If your first song just kind of falls out, it usually is a good sign for FAWM, at least for me. Songs tend to fall out more for me when I am having fun, so I just stick with that theme. :)
https://zecoop.bandcamp.com/track/book-em-dano-hawaii-five-4
Cool, thanks! I'll keep an eye out for you...
Hey,
Hope you have a great FAWM :) looking forward to hearing your music!!
Awesome, can't wait! :) I have an idea for the lyrics being about 'perfect' the perception of it basically..,. and probably more stemming off of that; how does that sound?
Hi, Happy FAWMing!!, perhaps we can Collaborate! I'd write the lyrics...
Hi Susan! Looking forward to FAWMing, connecting, listening, and collaborating!
Hey, just saw you post on the MD thread you're in EC, so am I! Small world.
Hello! Hope you have a good FAWM
Hi Susan, I just heard your song So Long, linked to from a forum post. I just wanted to say that I think it is beautiful, good work :)
Hope you have a great FAWM!
Thanks for the kind remarks Susan - cheered me right up.
Hi Susan - thanks so much for taking the time to listen and comment on my track on “This is me”.
It’s a good reminder that I should listen to the other tracks posted there! :)
Thanks so much!
Welcome back. Hope we collab again.
A very big hello to you!! I hope that you’re back again this year!