Cool As Ice - UPDATED

What a fun song....very nice, Daryl.  I love the lyrics and the singing is great.  Guitar is smooth as silk.  Only little note from these little speakers is the tom toms and kick sound super compressed to the point of just being a tiny dot.   It may just be these speakers though.
Great job.

I love this song! Excellent writing! The guitar solo is perfect for the song too and I like those harmony notes of course. Nice job, Daryl! 

Hi Daryl,

Great song, man! Love the guitar solo and guit harmonies. Well done!

Hey, Daryl,
 
Perfect song title because this song really is "Cool As Ice"!  Great writing, excellent vocals, and nice guitar playing with perfect tone for those tasty solos.
 
This reminds me of a cross between Jerry Lee Lewis, as you mentioned earlier, and The Stray Cats.
 
Really nice job!
Bob

Thanks for the feedback. This was a fun tune and while a little out of my typical genre, I sort of viewed it as a interim step back to what I normally do after that Texas swing number with Scott. 

It started with the guitar ideas and it was sounding very Dire Straits like, but when I stared on the lyrics, it camp out more of a 50's R&B, so in the end it was a melding of styles.

I had the line "Cool As Ice" and asked myself: "What is that about?"  And this is what came out.   On another day it might have ended up being about some dead guy.

I really like this song, nothing to add to this one but a smile and thank you for sharing the song because I enjoyed listening to this one very much.

Well, that is with the exception of one small thought, maybe it might be overkill but if at times on the words and vocals it would sound cool if you add "Uh huh" or something like that to add a little extra expression.

Whether you do or do not it sounds good to my ears.

                     
                      Songwriter

Glad your back up and recording again, Daryl. This is really just as you described it! Great guitar solo as well - real clean and so well executed. Harmonies are sweet.

Very, very cool!  Great to be able to easily hear all the lyrics.  Very well played and recorded and sung of course.   Great song writing. :-)

Nice one Daryl... Very smooth... Love the lick at the beginning...
Great touch and tone... Well done...

Very nice indeed Daryl, lovely writing and impeccably played as usual. Cool indeed.

James

Terrific number.  To me this captures the feel of some of the stuff going down in the early '60's.  Mark Knophfler meets Jerry Lee Lewis yes but I also get a little taste of Carl Perkins.
Nice one!!
 
Freddy J

Thanks to everyone for your warm reception of this piece.

The only consistent comment was that the drums need to come up, so.... If you're interested I did bring the drums up and it does seem to have more snap.    I think I often have my drum tracks low because I'm self concious about them.  Thanks everyone!

JC - I would love to be remembered as "just an excellent guitarist".    Thank you!

Fun tune to tap your foot to, Daryl.  I like the "journey and destination" line, buddy!!!

Great song. Voice sounds professional--smooth, powerful tone. Perfect pitch.

Words are magnificent. 

Really nice guitar solo. Did it have to go on so long the first time? Couldn't another instrument take over midway to keep it from getting old? or else shorten it?

I wanted to hear the song go out with words, not another solo. 

As it stands, this song is really professional. Voice, words, and guitar playing are awesome.

Thanks once again for all the kind comments.  I'm glad the vox track and lyrics are well accepted and I'm about to repost my infamous song with the wretched tone - completely redone thanks to everyone's honesty.  Maybe some day I can get my lyrics and singing more in line with the guitar tracks.

PeggySueChan, Your observations are undoubtedly spot-on and any A&R man would agree with you... but I'm a guitar centric person, so for me every song is an opportunity to express myself with the guitar, so by nature I will always create a lot of opportunity in that respect.  And as to why there is not another instrument in the solo, is because I suck at most other instruments.  I struggle with piano, but I can get the basics.  I'm reworking my ancient mandolin skills and hope to post something with that soon.  But at the end of the day... I'm another soul in the multitude of hopeless guitar slingers.  Thanks for listening and thanks for the comments.