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Ben,
Loved this, you just gave me a tune to have in the back of my mind throughout this day--makes me feel happy! I needed this as the thermometer says 2 degrees F in my Ohio location.........(the furnace my best friend today)
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Hi Ben:
When I put on my "Lyricist's Hat" I always try to imagine how I would attempt to tell the story and turn this into a song. Since it has a title, I suspect there is already a song you've written during the infancy of this effort. The title is my "clue" and with Jackson as the subject, you probably have something stunning waiting in the wings. I enjoyed the melody and naturally, wondered how it would sound as it is played on different instruments? Nice work and best of luck with it. ----Dave
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Thanks Calvin and Eddie. Dave, I originally wrote the song with lyrics. I thought it would sound good as an instrumental. Yes it's about Gen. Andrew Jackson and the first Seminole Indian war in 1818.
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Hi Ben,
The song tells a story that’s like a journey with a positive vibe to it. Good playing...the title takes me places. I try to imagine when I listen to an instrumental and I feel like this could be the backdrop to many stories, but stories with substance to them. Your title helps me imagine such stories! I feel a certain gentleness to the playing as it goes along as well. Good stuff!
Kristi
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. -- Abraham Maslow, American Psychologist
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Hi Ben, Really nice, well produced bit of rustic beauty. I enjoyed this very much. Mike
Fate doesn't hang on a wrong or right choice Fortune depends on the tone of your voice
-The Divine Comedy (Neil Hannon) from the song "Songs of Love" from the album "Casanova" (1996)
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Thanks Kristi. Here's the vocal version written and recorded a few years ago. It's in a different key, the tempo is slower, it's a little longer, and without the mandolin. https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=4952459
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Ben,
Oh hey. Almost didn’t see this. I like the strumming in this version. It’s kind of a “dig your heels in” type of feel. In the lyric I like the specific details you use as they give me a feel for the time and circumstances and what they had to do, which is sobering....the lyrics aren't posted but I caught: “smelled the blood like a school of sharks....with rifle balls and poison darts, marched thru towns and burned them down....looted stores, stole their cows, feeding armies, fighting Old Hickory’s War”. Those words paint a picture and are a reminder what war really is.
I enjoyed the music and your playing too. Well done. Both versions are quite nice!
Kristi
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. -- Abraham Maslow, American Psychologist
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Really nice, Ben. Always enjoy hearing your picking. Could be on a soundtrack...
Scott
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Thanks Kristi. The song is named after a history book of the same title written by David and Jeanne Heidler. They gave me permission to write the song. I love the book and David approved of the lyrics (even though there weren't really poison darts during the war, but I had to find a rhyme).
Scott, the instrumental version has been submitted to music libraries. Hopefully someone will use it.
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You have a very tight band, Ben Well played! I enjoyed my listen. Ricki
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