Beer Bottle Joe MP3

Hello everyone (cavernous echo),

I wrote this new song today...the lyrics are the first from a whole bunch of stuff that I've been writing recently. It fell under my fingers in about 15 minutes. I'm quite pleased with this, its a good indication of my guitar playing. I thought about overdubbing some lead on it too, but decided that it would be better to keep it raw and pure here.

Its been nice to have my old fashioned analogue multi-tracker back at my disposal today. There is nothing like making music to take your mind away from your problems. I'm feeling pretty chipper all in all. Its been a rough few days, but I can see bright horizons. With some of the poetry that I've been writing recently I think that I will be able to fashion some fine songs out of them.

This track is about a guy who'd been beaten up, and who turned up during one of my gigs at the Beercart in Canterbury. He danced like a mad man, I was singing my track "Popular" for the second time. And after I finished it, I asked him to come and join me in the corner for a chat. He was in bad shape, and I wanted to help him. He used to busk on the streets in Canterbury. It was a powerful conversation that we had...I felt that he gave me my brief as a writer, I wrote about it in another song called "The Brief" about the contract between the artist and their audience. It was like God touching me on the forehead. Anyway, the twist to all of this was that when I went home and switched on the web at about 2 o'clock in the morning I read that John Entwistle, one of my true heroes had died.

The guy's name was John not Joe. There were times afterwards when he'd disapear for weeks or months, and then he'd turn up at a KIAD party. A gentle, kind and sensitive soul, with hands like that of an old man.

The Link is below:
Beer Bottle Joe


Hope that you enjoy it,

Tom.