I trust everyone is having a wonderful holiday season. We've had some mighty cold weather, but luckily no snowfall so far. In honor of the season, here is a song written and recorded in November 2003. My friend, Bryan, and I wrote this song for a Christmas compilation that was being put together by a small Houston label (and ultimately never came to fruition). Bryan penned the first verse and I put it to some music and wrote a chorus. At the time, we wrote a lot of songs using open-D tuning which allows the player to form a major chord just by barring any fret. I think it also allows for a greater range of notes to be strummed and produces a nice, bright tone. This also marked the first of a couple songs where we dabbled with changing time signatures, alternating 4/4 and 3/4 measures in the outro. This was still at a time in my life where I tried to sing in a higher range, which does not sound pretty. At all.
We recorded this using an SM57 and a cheap USB interface, using Cakewalk Sonar to track everything. Bryan owned everything and he was kind enough to introduce me to the concept of a Digital Audio Workstation, which soon replaced my cassette deck for recording songs.
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