Feb 2022 acoustic-blues shuffle
Jon: I love my yearly collaboration with Sherry. She always pulls me in a jazz direction. These lyrics are clever and funny, and a simple swinging blues setting felt right. This was a late-night bedroom acoustic don't-wake-the-house quick recording. I didn’t change a wrord from how Sherry wrote it.
Sherry: February has been tough on me the last few years, but doing a collab with Jon has been a highlight and adds sparkle to my life.
Jon has a musical sensibility that I feel very connected to.
Thank you Jon for the way you brought this to life!
I like nobody
And nobody likes me
We pass each other all the time
But I don’t see him
And he don’t see me
I want nobody
And nobody wants me
Shall we meet in the middle?
Where’s that gonna be?
Cause I don’t know him
And he don’t know me.
Bridge
Out beyond where
The moon and stars don’t shine
Nobody waits for me
With no light to follow
I can’t find my way to
Nobody waiting for me
I’m in love with nobody
Nobody loves me, it’s true
Nobody goes where nobody goes
Until…one day out of the blue
Nobody’s dream came true
Sherry Somach Feb 2022
@audrey Mar 2022
Oh, this is foot-tapping good! Very catchy and enjoyable melody and gentle guitar and drums. Very jazzy and cool sound. I really like these lyrics too. Perfect match with the music.
@wobbiewobbit Mar 2022
i was instantly transported into the toy story world, i could really imagine this as a pixar character song, it develops into more of a story - i like the twist, took a slow dawning on me and it helped having the written Nobody to confirm that. cute feel and i really like the dramatic woe of embracing the nobody loves me position that the music gives it. then the very last wink. nice collab
@richaaaay Mar 2022
Fantastic jazzy blues. Fun lyrics. Great blues guitar. Love the double stops. Brushes sound great. Dig this style of music.
@max Mar 2022
Brilliant! Great job both of you.
One listen isn't enough. On repeat in this household. And in my mind the rest of the day. I'll be singing this riding my bike through Amsterdam today.
@greengrassgirl Mar 2022
Wonderful lyrics! I love word play, and you did a great job here. And then I found the full song. This is perfect! Terrific vocal and the music is the perfect complement to the words. What a great collab! Sounds pro to me!
@crutherford Mar 2022
your phrasing in this is exquisite. esp the bridge!
it feels like it's live off the floor.
i love that you recorded it quickly when everyone else was asleep. there is indeed an intimacy to this performance.
this is a great write and you really did it justice!
bravo!
@roblincoln Mar 2022
This has such a classic feel. It shuffles along so carefree that I did not realize it was basically a blues at first. I realize it's the perfect music for the song because the words are both humorous and very sad depending how you look at it. Great opening line and it just gets better from there. I think these are brilliant lyrics. Love the bass too! I'm downloading this one!
@tamsnumber4 Feb 2022
What a wonderful collaboration and loved these lyrics, that bridge is really good, I like the "Nobody waits for me". A wonderful melody and sing. Two wonderful songwriters creating magic!
@mikeskliar Feb 2022
this is just great! love that lyric (very mose allison!) and what a great jazzy/bluesy music/performance! great collab by all!
@klaus Feb 2022
Splendidly swinging and sweet lyrics by Sherry. The clever ending makes me go back and read them again from another point of view. Jon's music fits the lyrics to a tee. It really grooves in an easy and confident way. This is a match made in heaven. :)
@hbusse Feb 2022
Fun idea to set this to a 12-bar blues feel! Clever lyric and a musical setting that feels utterly classic and so cool. Jon, I always love your sound - you are a pro.
@kadmad202 Feb 2022
So nice! So swingy and bluesy and jazzy - I was smiling all the way through. Great lyrics, Sherry. They completely add to the smoky lounge feel. And Jon, your musical sensibility and wonderfully weathered voice (I mean that in the best possible way!) makes this a perfect collab.
@roddy Feb 2022
Very cool and very smooth. This is great to listen to. The lyrics bring a freshness and inventiveness to the song.
@nancycunning Feb 2022
Sherry and John - What a great collaboration. Feels like Lyle Lovett and his Big Band's take on the Mother Goose rhyme Mister Nobody. And then that tantalizing last line "Nobbody's dream came true." with the jazzy hands Oh yeah. I'll be pondering that line all year.
@tseaver Feb 2022
Great collab: the swing feel and tasty guitar and vocal are a great match for the tongue-in-cheek playfulness of the lyric.
@mikeb Feb 2022
The 'traveling' bass is great on this, and the bridge is a nice change-up.
@oswlek Feb 2022
Nice, got my head bobbing along. I would have stuck around for at least another minute to groove along with an instrumental coda, if you decide to tack one on later. :)
Clever wordplay. Good work all around.
@panch Feb 2022
This is a nice laid back. jazzy blues. It's got some effective original touches like the stops in the bridge and that chord to come out of the bridge with that natural lift into the final chorus.
Really enjoyed this one.
@tukayandryan Feb 2022
Jazzy vibes and toe-tapping loveliness. Great collab.
@gardeningangel1 Feb 2022
Cute and clever lyrics set to music that really swings! This is a great tune, smooth vocals, light and breezy percussion, and jazzy guitar. Real toe-tapper.
@pabrizzer Feb 2022
terrific collab