quebec

I GUESS I HAVE THE SONG TITLES NOW

I forgot to post this. But here we are. The nine songs for the upcoming sessions for Quebec.

Two of them are sorta kinda written already (“Intercession For A Boozebag” and “The Secret of La-La Land”), but they belong on this one. ‘Boozebag’ is the only remaining unrecorded song I’d shared in demo form with our beloved Justine Covault (she told me she thought it was like Nirvana mixed with Gregorian chanting so…) and ‘La-La’ was aimed at a C&L California-by-way-of-I’ve-only-been-there-once project I’d imagined would be called the The Town of Our Lady, but that’s since splintered into a few different parts.

Started “Salvation Assignment” the other day and in its earliest birth pangs it was calling out like this really sing-songy progression I’d written, Jesus, like 32 years ago for a few songs, most notably one called “C Starts With Cate” with an opening line I’ve always held onto: “she wore it like a skirt marooned, and all the glitter gloomed away.” (I mean, I was 19 okay?)

There’s a Zumpano song I love called “Temptation Summary” that the title ‘Salvation Assignment’ put me in mind of, and I pulled that thread a little with the bouncy progression but ultimately we reached a messy detente. This wasn’t how the song was going to be. And this wasn’t how the album was meant to open.

I’m also now not sure if my guitar is even right for this album. I play an Epiphone SG tuned up to F# that has really served us well. It’s got a nice easy neck for my tiny doll hands, but I keep thinking this is a black Les Paul album, which is interesting because I don’t currently own a black Les Paul (although I did about…32 years ago). But then I’d probably want to write the songs in standard tuning and just capo songs 2 and 3 and that would mess up the part of my brain that wants everything to arrive full-throated and screaming from the same instrument in the same setup.

Why am I like this?

Anyhow, I think we’re probably going to stick with the SG.