Songs in THE RAW!! "Christmas Brawl"

It's The Holidays again and I am always reminded of family. Oysters Rockefeller at my grandmother's Christmas party. Turkey, gravy, stuffing and eggnog oozing from my pours. I always think of Bourbon around this time of year. A good dark liquor on the rocks and a the air so cold that you can see your breath as you wet your lips with the alcoholic nectar. Scarfs and overcoats make a nice addition to the Holiday wardrobe of suits and Santa hats.
The Holidays also remind me of family feuds, drunk uncles and bad presents. I've always wondered what happens with Santa and is family around the Holidays. Does he have to go through a few road blocks before getting to each drop zone. It must be hard to work every Holiday. I'm sure, that with the pressure, there have been a few Christmas fights around the Claus House. Plus the elves are working their buts off all year long and do they get the Holiday off?
My song this week is called "Christmas Brawl". It's a story about Santa and an elf getting in a fight in my house. Santa decides to come in through the back door, the elf cleans out my bar, the tree catches fire and animal control has to come to restrain the reindeer. Dogs and cats living together....madness!
This song was written for a friend of mine who requested a Christmas Song. I hope it satisfies the craving for a Holiday treat.
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Songs in the Raw "Get Over It" - Dec 8, 2007

I'm still firing away at this illusive target. I've decided to give myself a break and just say that I am on track. It's kind of like hitting the reset button. Plus, since hardly anyone is reading these things, I though that no one would care if I missed a week here and there. The holidays and travel took me out of the game for a week or so, but that kind of thing is bound to happen.
This week's installment is a song called "Get Over It". I borrowed from my own experience and the experience of a couple of my friends to put this one together. The idea stems from failed relationships and your involvement in them. I find that, if you dig hard enough, you find that you are at the root of your problems. Whether they're work related, relationships, family or general day to day operations, YOU are the one at the bottom of your issues. Hence the title "Get Over It". What I'm saying is that you need to get over yourself.
I know that in my past failed relationships, I had a lot to do with the downward spiral they eventually took. For me, it centered around drinking and drug use. Which, of course, stemmed from fear of failure, fear of success, fear of commitment and general self deprecating. It's all fun and games until some one gets hurt....some one always gets hurt!
Specifically, this song revolves around the need to be loved to fill a void of self love. Not the kind of self love that is actually arrogance or grandiocity, but the self love that allows you to share yourself with another human. One of the first things they ask you to do in a treatment center is to forgive yourself. It's not easy to forgive yourself when you're a total jerk.....but you have to start somewhere.
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Songs in THE RAW!! "Blind Fate"

Well..the Holidays are starting to mess with my mission. I am a little behind on my plan, but I am ready to make up for it.
Let me start by saying that I hope that every one had a wonderful Thanksgiving. If you're not from the US, it's the day we celebrate when we invited the Native Americans to dinner, fed them, then stole their land and began the genocide. I wonder if the Casinos on Reservations in this Country have a "No White Man" rule on Thanksgiving. Or is there some kind of reverse celebration honoring their ancestors who were repeatedly lied to by The US Government.....this is what I wonder about on Thanksgiving.
I don't even want to get started on Christmas. Let me just say that I was a little sickened by the people lining up at shopping centers around the country to "get in on the deals". If they were that concerned about saving money, maybe they shouldn't be BUYING ANYTHING!?!?!

OK...I'm over it....This week's song came to me as I was thinking about the course that my life has taken. I made a few decisions...some good...some bad....stood idly by while things unfolded around me....missed out on this....drank too much of that....slept through a few major events....watched too much TV....not enough History Channel....didn't call my parents enough in college...maybe shouldn't have dropped Accounting....SURE...I could read more...all of this is true, but it has lead me to where I am today. Which reminds me, I really ought to write this blog before I write the song. I missed a few things during the songwriting process.

The song is called "Blind Fate". It's about the messed up road we take to finding "true love". Also a little bit about the miracle that is the human life. Every day is a blessing. We should treat it that way. I'm going to stare at my kids....go to the gym....enjoy a nice cup of coffee....maybe a light lunch....play my guitar and kiss my wife. All before noon!

That's what I call a good day!

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Songs in THE RAW!! "Way Down and So Low"

Well, how and the heck are ya? It's been a while and I am glad to be back in the saddle. I hope you have been enjoying life and preparing for the holidays. It's been a crazy few weeks for me...travel...family....growing infants. I posted three songs a few weeks ago to keep up my end of the bargain. Now I'm a day late for this week's entry, but I hope you'll forgive me.

I wrote this song in honor of those who think that they are "the man", "the boss", "ruler of their own domaine", "the cat's meow", "all that and a bag of potato chips". It's my belief that self praise is no praise at all. I like to laugh at people who think highly of themselves. How 'bout a little humility my friends?

As I watch the self-inflated go through life, they seem to always end up on the down and out. Why is that? I think it's because no one likes to hear about how great you think you are. So when things go a little wrong, no one is going to help you find your way again. According to you, you always know your way. You've never needed help before, or laughed when it was offered and now people actually enjoy watching your ship burn. or maybe it's just me that likes to watch.

Anyway, this week's song is called "Way Down and So Low". It's not a Blues song....sorry.
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Songs in THE RAW!! Nov 6, 2007

I have been travelling for the last week...Nashville and New Orleans. Family, friends, music, work and play. I have not been at home to record my SONG IN THE RAW - Songwriter on a Mission, but I did manage to put up THREE songs last week for your listening pleasure.

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Songs in the Raw! Oct 27, 2007

I deeply regret that I am going to be unable to RECORD songs for the next couple of weeks. I am heading to Nashville for family and business and then on to New Orleans for football and family. I'm very exited to be back in Nashville. I am recording a video for the first single on me next record. I'm also meeting with "Music Industry People" talking about distribution and promotion for my new CD. It will be a learning experience, no doubt.

So, in order to keep up with my weekly SONGS IN THE RAW, I am posting THREE songs this week. I'm also going to be writing from the road and I'll be back in the home studio as soon as I get home again.

Let me just tell you about the three songs;

"Live in my Hell" is another song about the Haight Street "people". I pass them all day long as I get coffee, run to the grocery store, buy some t-shirts, pizza, whatever. I wrote this song as I day dreamed out the window with my guitar in my hand. It's my song about what I think it might be like living on the street. There is so much that can go wrong in this life. Almost anyone can end up in a bad way. I pray that it never happens to me.

"Seeing This Girl" is a true story about a girl that I dated briefly. She was a bartender at one of my local haunts. As it turned out, she was dating a local rock star who was on tour all the time. I guess she was bored and had nothing better to do, so she went on a few dates with me. She actually said that she "sort of" had a boyfriend, but he wouldn't mind if we went out. We never kissed, we never did anything except dinner. She really just cost me a lot of money....that's about it.

"Heaven Tonight" is a song that I wrote watching the sun go down. What can I say, I am mystified by the sun and the moon and the changing of the seasons and all that crap! It reminds me of what it means to be human and alive on the earth.

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Songs in the Raw - Oct 21 - "Perfect Reason"

I had a friend request a topic for this week's installment. I love that! I hope that more people reach out and send me their suggestions. I can always use a new idea. My brain is small and overworked as it is. I lost a lot of it in the 1990's and what I have left is burned in the wee-hours of baby feeding. I anticipate a later life of drooling and blank stares. And I'm talking about next year!

At any rate, my friend finds herself in a situation that I've seen in a lot of my friends over the years. A series of bad relationship decisions by smart people, who should know better, leading to questioning whether or not they could ever find that "one true love". I see it happen all the time. It takes a variety of forms, but the one that I am focusing on is the person who only wants what is unavailable or that does not want them. I guess they're the same thing, cause in the end.....never gonn get it...never gonna get...never get it!

As an observer, it's easy to see that this type of behavior is a way to avoid confronting the internal issues of why they're not happy. It's easy to blame a doomed relationship. "They lived out of state". "They wouldn't divorce their wife". "They just got out of a serious relationship". "They are focused on their work".....there are a bunch more excuses. They all add up to "unavailable". Most of the time, if not all of the time, this information was known from the onset. Deep down inside, it was a way out. A way to run away without holding yourself accountable.

Anyway, I wrote like 2 songs about that type of thing, but wasn't really happy about the finished product.....so I didn't end up writing about that at all. But, it did lead me to the a pretty cool little song about how sometimes the best relationships, and usually the most successful relationships, are between two people who are "opposite" in many ways, but find that together, they complete each other.

This week's song is called "Perfect Reason". I've also added a bonus track called "With Me". It's what I like to call a "little diddy".

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Songs in THE RAW!! Oct 13, 2007 "Never Had a Reason"

Hey there everybody. I'm back for another week of SONGS IN THE RAW! - Songwriter on a Mission.

I approached this week's song a little differently. I'm sort of experimenting with different ways to create a song. This week I tried to keep the melodic and chord structure simple...I guess they're always simple, but this week with it's simple with intention. Then I went after the lyrics with the idea of a non-existant rhyme scheme. Sure there are a few rhymes here and there, but I stayed away from ABAB and other more traditional schemes. The result was something a little off MY beaten path. Probably not so unusual for some writers.

This week's song is called "Never Had a Reason". I took the idea for the lyrics from a realationship that I was in a long time ago where the girl I was dating cheated on me...more than once...and was LESS THAN COOL TO ME. Really, she was crazy! i was was young and stupid and hadn't figured out yet that college was for cheating and being cheated on...isn't that right?

It sort of stems from the idea that the person who is cheating is the person who accuses the other person of cheating. If you can't trust yourself, you can't trust your partner. If your the one being faithful, you generally don't think about the other person being unfaithful. At least that's the way that I've found things to work.

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Songs in the Raw! Oct 6, 2007

"The biggest shame of it all is no one's running after her" is the chorus line for this week's song. I know people who are self destructive in many ways, but it's most evident in their relationships...or lack there of. I wrote this week's song based on a person I used to know well. She would rather run away than become too close. Close enough for it to hurt when she was dumped or cheated on. She found it easier to run away. She never kept too many belongings. It seemed like her suitcase was always packed.

No...she was not my girlfriend. I just found it to be such a shame that some one could sabotage their own life in such a way. Maybe it was because she didn't know how to be happy. Maybe she didn't know how to love herself first. Maybe she hated herself....I should have asked her those questions, but it might be awkward to do it now. Just call her up and say, "why don't you love yourself ?" She's probably happily married with 3 kids living in the suburbs playing golf twice a week and an upstanding member of the PTA.

HEY....it's just a song! And it's called "Torn Duffle of Dreams". The kind of duffle that has seen thousands of miles and been over stuffed a hundred times.

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Songs in the Raw! Sept 29, 2007

I live in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood in San Francisco. It's an eclectic neighborhood full of cool clothes stores, cafes, hippy stores and 60's memorabilia shops. There are a ton of street musicians, bums, drug dealers and college students on break asking for spare change. I walk by these people everyday as I run my local errands. I've found that the best time of day is between 7am and 10am. Before the bums get up from sleeping in the park and way too early for the drug dealers. The college students are still sleeping in their Vanagons and on their friends couches and the street is quiet and empty.

Recently, I've been walking by a guy who is simultaneously asking for change and reading tarot cards for money. I appreciate his effort. It's much better than asking for money to "buy my next beer" or "get me fucked up".

Anyway, I used him in this week's song. The only thing is that I changed him into a woman and made him blind. I think that reading tarot cards is cool, but I'd like to see it done by a blind woman. Now that would be talent.

I also thought that this song should be kind of a tribute to Ray Wiley Hubbard. He's one of my favorite song writers and this song kind of deserved his style. The song is called "Moment of Clarity". It's a story song. I rarely write these kinds of songs, so let me know what you think. I guess it's not a real story. I don't take a trip to Reno or find a bag full of money. I don't meet any crazy people or end up on the beach in Hawaii. So, it's not a real story. It's sort of a moment in time.

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Songs in THE RAW!! Sept 23

I am so freaking fried right now. I don't even have any idea what I just recorded. I don't remember writing or recording the song for this week. I'm not sure what it's about. I'm not sure if I even like it....as a matter of fact, I probably don't. I don't know, I'll have to go back and check it out. Either way, it's all I can do right now....between bottles, poops, screaming and squeezing in 3 hours of sleep, I can barely manage to change clothes, much less take care of my "SONGS IN THE RAW" quest. Was that a run-on sentence?

This week's song is called "Strawberry Sunsets". I have no idea where it came from, but it ended up sort of being a reflection on sobriety and the search for self. Somehow that doesn't come across so clearly in the song....maybe it does.

I think it's about searching outside for something that has been inside you all along. That seems to be a problem with a lot of people, including me. Always looking for answers in other things, people or activities. I liked to look for answers in bottles of liquor, bags of weed and tiny bindles of cocaine. That's just me. I don't recommend that technique, but it did get me where I am today. Like I had to walk through the fire to find myself.

So what are "Strawberry Sunsets" and why do I say that I am "Burning my feet in the sand"? Well, that means that I am all the I love and do and experience and remember and want to do and experience and remember in the future. I am what I've done and I will be what I am doing now......maybe I should work out more and eat better...since I want to be some one who's in good shape and stands a good chance of living a long life.

OK...time for bed...for three hours....if I'm lucky....then more screaming, diaper changing, bottle warming and rocking back to sleep..ing.

I hope you enjoy "Strawberry Sunsets".

Oh...it's the GOOD LIFE! Wouldn't change it for the world.

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Jon

Songs in THE RAW!! Sept 20

OK...I'm stuck. I laid down the guitar part yesterday for this week's song and I have no idea where to go now. So, I've decided to write a bit about what I am thinking about and see if it leads me some where. Plus, the guitar part mutated as I recorded it and now I am in an entirely new vibe.

The idea that keeps floating around in my head is "Something to believe in". It started out as "Some one to believe in" but that might lead me to a political rant. I did that last week and don't want to get stuck in that rut. Also, the "Something to believe in" thing was done by Poison in the 80s and I can't help but go back to that image. So...where do I want to take this thing?

The second line that came out of my head was "Beside myself". What the hell is that? Of course, I believe in myself. It's the only way that I can continue to go through this songwriting exercise. Plus, in this world you really have to believe in yourself to follow your dreams. Lord knows, there are enough people along the way to try and talk you out of following your dreams. "Find a fall back plan....don't get your hopes up.....it's a tough business and very few people succeed....don't quit your day job....be realistic with your chances of success....it's just a hobby". The list goes on. Quite frankly, I'm too old to go back and try something else. I have too many tattoos to get a real job (which isn't that many) and I never liked that way I look in corporate casual, not to mention the word "slacks" (unless used as a verb).

OK, back to the business at hand. Here are some lines that might find their way into this week's song....unless it all changes tonight.
"If you're running on faith, run with your head out of you ass"
"Believe in some one, make sure they believe in you"
"Take a chance on love and love will take a chance on you"
"I find myself when I'm looking for something that I lost" - "You have to loose yourself to find yourself"
"Where would I be without loosing myself" - "Where would I be if I never lost myself"

I think there might be something in there somewhere. I like the last one the best and it might lend itself to the vibe of the song!

Now, let's see what pops out of my head tonight.

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Songs in THE RAW!! Sept 15, 2007

There's nothing like the sound of screaming babies in the back round to inspire writing. Just as I sit down to write up my blog, both babies let loose with a bone curdling scream. Let's see what I can come up with.

So, this week's song is called "Politics and Bad Religion". I usually don't write about either one of those subjects, but sometimes you just gotta let it go. There's so much crap going on in this world that it has to creep into my song writing every now and then. I'm not sure about the rest of you guys, but the clowns in charge of your political future have insulted my intelligence one too many times. At the same time, what can I do. I vote....I take the occasional poll...I donate my musical time for free for causes that I believe in...but I can't change the minds of the policy makers. I haven't even talked about religion yet. I'm not even sure where to begin there.

I'm a spiritual guy. I believe in something larger at work here. We're not just running around in pointless circles to no end. There is a reason behind everything. I just don't feel like there is an organised religion that has the definitive answer or even a vague grasp of the scope of "that which no greater can be conceived". That's all I can say about that......I won't dive into the deep end of the religious wars that have plagued our planet since the dawn of humans religious endeavors.

SO..."Politics and Bad Religion"...check it out!

ALSO, THERE'S A BONUS TRACK THIS WEEK!!
I've included a recording a song that I wrote a few months ago. Actually, I was inspired to write this song as I watched the events unfold at Virginia Tech. I was home for that few days during and after the tragedy there and I was deeply effected, as I think we all were. As a songwriter I couldn't help but writing something based on that event.

I've had mixed reviews of this song's inspiration. There are those who think that I have exploited a tragedy for my own gain...although I'm not sure what gain that is. I am not seeking fame and fortune through the writing of these songs. I am only writing songs from my view of life and the things that effect me. If I did not write about thing that had meaning to me, I would be a walking lie. I was extremely saddened by what I watched on TV for those days around that massacre. If it didn't make it's way into my writing....WHAT'S THE F#*KING POINT!

Anyway, the bonus track is called "Shattered Pieces". I hope you enjoy what you hear. Maybe you will be moved to write me and curse me....maybe you will feel that way that I do and did about this tragic event.

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Songs in THE RAW!! September 7, 2007

This will be the second week in a row that I have looked into a darker subject. I can't help it. I just like to get a little dirty every now and then. My mother once asked me to stop writing depressing songs. Did the arts community ask Van Gogh not to paint a self portrait? Did anyone ask John Lennon not to write songs about peace? Did they call the Write Brothers not to look to the sky? Did anyone tell Barry Bonds not to take steroids? I DON'T THINK SO!

We are who we are...we do what we do....anything else would be criminal. I'm not a sad guy. I have a lot of great things in my life. I don't spend my days thinking about death and reliving my messed up relationships. I drank enough liquor and snorted enough cocaine to fill Wembley Stadium. I don't spend all day thinking about how much of my life I lost in a drunken coked up stupor.....and it was a good chunk! I just feel like writing about the lower points in my life is a way of cleansing. It's like the Blues. It's my way of releasing the pain and moving on. As it turns out, I have a lot of pain. I must have saved myself a ton of money in therapy with my music.

At any rate, this week's song is called "To Be Lonely". It's about me..really...but I turned it into a "her" song. I based it on a relationship that failed due to my drug abuse and general lack of presence..."even when I was present". I am actually lucky to have done this in the past. It's one of the things that I use as a learning point to keep my current, very awesome relationship.

The song is based around the idea that sometimes it's better to be with some one, even if it's not the best relationship, than to be lonely. Again, I don't actually say that in the song, but that's the idea anyway.

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Songs in THE RAW!! August 31, 2007

Man oh man....life has taken a turn and I am on the fast track! My wife and I just had twins 10 days ago. Sleep come in 2-3 hour incriments. For some reason babies like to sleep all day and scream all night. How can they know that there are monsters in the closet and under the bed. They don't ebenm know what monsters are. What do they dream about? Their last 10 days? Time in the uterus? Past lives? My son has a frown and a blood curtaling scream that could wake up Rumple Stilstin. My daughter smiles a lot and looks around the room like she's missing something. Both of them prefer to go to the bathroom after the diaper has been removed. Maybe there's something about the cool air. I know that I enjoy the feeling of a good "nature" pee.

I had to take last week off of the "Songs in the Raw". I tried to make it, but between the hospital and grandmom and granddad, my time was limited. I will say this. If you have a child, stay in the hospital as long as you can. I would have been scared out of my mind if they had sen us home after a day or so. Before I left the hospital I was proficient in swaddling, feeding and changing diapers. If I was sent home before that time my children would have grown up very hungry and covered in poop and piss.

So, that leads me, very indirectly to this week's song. I fell on a cool little music theme some time last weekend and got enought time to work it out through the week as my mom helped with feeding and changing. The kids got to hear me work out the little pieces. They will either love my music or frieking hate it!

I started thinking about the course my life has laid out before me. I thought about my friends and family that died along the way and will never have the chance to meet my children and have a family of their own. I thought about how wonderful my life is and how lucky I am to be where I am. It made me incredibly sad for those who have not made it. I thought about the joy of becoming a father and the sorrow of knowing that some of my friends died before graduating from college or having sex in the back seat of their dad's car. I thought about the times that I sat up and watched the sun rise after a long night of partying and realised that a lot of people don't make it out of those kinds of nights. I realised that with every ounce of joy there must be an ounce of pain.

As a matter of fact, I might re-write the lyrics to this song one day. As I'm writing this I feel a few more ideas popping up. But, that's the idea behind the "Songs in the Raw". I write as it comes to me and leave it in it's bare form. Not too much rethinking and editing.

Anyway, this week's song is called "There is a Hurt". As usual you can find it in it's entirity on Songs in the Raw Myspace Page. If you want to buy the song and listen to it over and over again you can go to my SNOCAP store;


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Jon