The Year of Twelve Songs, Pt 7
I'll Save You
This Month’s Song
This one is new. Only a few people have heard it before this. I played it live once for a small open-mic crowd in an echoey space full of people talking, so maybe no one really heard it that night. Other than that, only my wife Jacqueline has heard it—over and over while it evolved and while I practiced it.
That’s fitting because, although the song is newly written, it’s reaching back to a moment, an energy, that she and I shared a long time ago. Thirty years ago, in fact. Basically, it’s a just-barely-fictionalized account of how we rescued each other and caused a family scandal by falling in love and running away together.
And I’ll leave it at that.
Performance & Production
I wanted to keep this one bare-bones and warts-and-all to see how much of the emotion I could convey with just the guitar and vocal. I filmed it live in front of my living room bar, straight to iPhone, but with a usb microphone. The audio is un-enhanced with any effects or mixing.
Gear & Software
Guitar: Taylor American Dream AD11e Grand Theater
Educational Resources: Colin Cross, TheBandGuide.com; Joe Gilder, HomeStudioCorner.com
Hardware: MacBook Air 2020, with AOC 27-inch auxiliary monitor.
Tonor Q9 USB Condenser Microphone
Apple iPhone X, iMovie
Beyerdynamic DT900 ProX Open-back Headphones
PreSonus E5 Studio Monitors