Nice song Janet , lyrics tell a story with a touch of darkness and uplifting .

Great job !

jimmyman


  I want to give each and everyone of you a huge heartfelt
thank you. Maybe Janet will pitch in with some notes
of her own. I prefer a personal thanks to each of you
but I don't want to hog the show.

The very important thing for me is to know what your
views are and short of some minor suggestions they
are all saying well done.

  One person mentioned a "big" production and I can see
that as an option I didn't want to take it too far as to
the have the production mean more than the song.

Thanks everyone

Jimmy, if you don't mind? Since others have been thanked "personally?" I would like for you to thank me "personally?"
 
You're welcome (in advance ;-)

:-) MILLIONS OF PEOPLE LOOK AT THIS BOOK EVERYDAY!! THIS IS THE KIND OF SPONTANEOUS PUBLICITY!! YOUR NAME IN PRINT!! THAT MAKES PEOPLE!! I'M IN PRINT!!!! THINGS ARE GOING TO START HAPPENING TO ME NOW!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rVuZ0hJEyM

Janet and Jimmy,
Beautiful song.  Sounds like a home run.  Every base has been tagged...song, arrangement, performance, and mix.
Very nice!

Thank you so much, James, Larry and Rick!  :-) 

ShadDOH


I'm going to listen again! Man Jimmy, your vocals are absolutely perfect for this. Really "chilling". Please explain how you got that tone on the bass? How did you get it to punch and ring like that? Do you have an external cab that's exciting the strings?
 
By the end of this song, I was like Meg in this clip..
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Banging the table with my hands and everything!

   You asked about the bass tone? How?

  The sample started a long time ago. so long that
I cant remember. suffice it to say it was just
something simple way before all this fancy
1 million sample library's were around.

  One day after doing a mix I re sampled the bass from
"that" mix. (just one note) It had eq and a multi band
comp. so I sampled it effects and all. now I simply
use sfz player to do the bass parts from that sample.

  This mix doesn't have any comp or limiting at all
on the master bus and none in mastering either.
so this mix has no comping on the bass neither
in its track or the master.

  Even the vocs are straight into a presonus
firebox. didn't even use any of my tube pres
at all. The mic is about a 135 dollar condenser. 

  The setup is so basic. a low cost mic and interface
and sonar and that's it.
  

Tim, if you only knew how many people have rewritten or added to my songs.  lol.  Go for it!  I'd love to hear your version.  :-) 

Janet, Jimmy, WOW!!!!!!!!! Simply GREAT!!!!!!!
 
I didn't know you could sing that great Jimmy? What the heck are you doing for a living man??? If it ain't singing then you ain't LIVING! Your vox was freaking GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the Music, WOW!!!!!!!!!!
 
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
 
Bobby - Freeze1st
 
 
 

All i can say is WOW! really amazing job on the whole package. Everything was perfect.

Nice vox from Jimmy.

I would love to hear more like this from you Janet. Your best so far without doubt.

Thanks for the ear candy.
Mark.

  Freeze 1st
     Janet, Jimmy, WOW!!!!!!!!! Simply GREAT!!!!!!!
 
I didn't know you could sing that great Jimmy? What the heck are you doing for a living man??? If it ain't singing then you ain't LIVING! Your vox was freaking GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the Music, WOW!!!!!!!!!!
 
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
 
Bobby - Freeze1st
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      Thanks for the vocal compliment. The truth is
I've had people say or insinuate that i'm not a very
good singer in my times. Made my living playing
guitar and singing in bands much of my life.

  I must admit it got to me to the point where
I considered my self a non singer. And playing live
doing cover tunes (some of which I hated)
(because the band wanted to do them)
(and yes who had to sing these songs I hated?
ME.

  Many times when someone here says I'm a good
singer I have those thoughts of those times when
they more or less said I couldn't sing. So thank
you much for the compliments.

   Notnat
       A lovely song Janet... Very well written and arranged...
I love Jimmy's treatment of it...
 
I'm hearing some timing issues with the piano, and I'd like more variation in drum track...
Otherwise an outstanding production...
 
Excellent work Janet and Jimmy...  
.....................................
   Janet wrote the song and I did everything else.
You are correct on the timing and variation. But
I doubt I'll change it for now. There are many
reasons but in this day and time of (anyone
can fix anything) (quantize) (throw in a vst
drum roll etc) I'm getting tired of the trickery.

  I was going to do those things like you
mentioned but this time I just said no,
If I couldn't play it Live I aint going to use
technology to change things.

  For example the piano. If i played these parts
live I would not have the quantize luxury.
And I f I played these drum parts live I'd
keep it simple Because drums are something
that is out of my league to play live.

  I 'm just in a basics mindset lately.

  Thanks so much for the comments.

  Mstodge
All i can say is WOW! really amazing job on the whole package. Everything was perfect.

Nice vox from Jimmy.

I would love to hear more like this from you Janet. Your best so far without doubt.

Thanks for the ear candy.
Mark.
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     I'll see if I can get janet to give you a thanks.

  Beagle
    Janet and Jimmy - late to the part, but better late than never, eh?

this is an excellent song!  Janet - your lyric writing skills are actually very good!  If memory serves me correctly you've written 3 songs with lyrics (that you've posted), one for your grandson, one that Calista (sp?) sang and this one.  your lyrical talent is one to be jealous of - I love the way you tell stories with your lyrics!

Jimmy - this is an excellent rendition of her song.  I am very pleased with the choice of instruments, the singing, everything.  yes, there are a couple of minor timing issues, but they add to the character of the song instead of causing a distraction.  your vocals are better in this song than some of the others you've done (not meant as a criticism of your earlier tunes).

who is doing the backing vocals?  is that you as well?  or did robby send something in (I see him mentioning it in a post or two).

this is a real treat all around!  bravo!
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    Yes these are my best vocals but I think it may
be because of the song a good song goes a long way.
I'm recording vocs different too. Crazy thing is its
just the mic straight into the interface. No fancy tube
Pre and stuff like that. I'm singing the harmonies too.
Some of my earlier vocs are not all that great so this
performance feels like like doing something at least.

   Thanks for the descriptive and constructive comments
 

Hi Janet,

Thanks for sharing, I can see you are making more and more beautiful tunes day by day, this is great!

It is funny to find you here, I was actually listening you tracks on my site today :-)

Carry on the good work


Ben

Robby, um, thanks anyway.  :-)

Thanks Bobby.  And yes, he can sing. :-)

Thanks Frank.

Thanks Mark.  My best so far?  hmmm...   Not sure if I can do it again, but you never know. :-)

Thanks Reece.  I guess I can tell stories...just don't seem to have the poetical paint-a-word picture gene.  Anyway, glad you like it. :-) 

Thank you, Brundlefly. :-)

Thank you, Ben.  You were listening to my tunes?  I hope you enjoyed them. :-)

What??!!  Well, thank you, Tim!  I'm flabbergasted.  :-)  (and thanks again to Jimmy too.)

 
Really nice job on this! It's not easy to get a nice blend between acoustic guitar and a piano because they both use the same frequencies but the mix on this one allows both to be heard clearly. I have to comment on the beautiful tone of the acoustic guitar, it really rings out nicely.
 
Very nice songwriting as well. You could easily market this song as I could definately see this being picked up by a major country recording artist and doing very well on the charts.
 
Great job ya'll.
 
Pete

 
Janet, Jimmy - this is a really moving piece.
 
Beautifully played and mixed too