The Regular Friday Post

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Michael

Dec 22, 2023

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LINK> HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN DIE HARD CHRISTMAS TREE ORNAMENT

You still have time!! (Thanks, Paul!!)

Rando lyrics: Seems like a good week to chill, so no rando lyrics today - back next week with my favorite New Year's Eve song

Last week’s rando lyrics: The lyric, “Been putting up a real good fight There were times I thought you'd win” is from the Kenny Chesney (featuring Grace Potter) song “You and Tequila” which is Track 4 on the 2010 album “Hemingway’s Whisky”. (The song was) “written by Matraca Berg and Deana Carter, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Chesney. It was released in May 2011 as the fourth single from his album Hemingway's Whiskey (2010). Chesney's version of the song features a guest vocal from Grace Potter, lead singer of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.

“Chesney and Potter's version of the song is set in the key of G♭ major with a vocal range from G♭3 to E♭5. The main chord pattern is G♭5-G♭/B♭-B♭sus2-G♭5.^[6]^” (Ed. That bit of seeming trivia will be important further down.)

Credit: Wikipedia Link: You And Tequila

Welcome to The Regular Friday post!

For Today:

Yeah, I know - it’s Christmas and everyone’s doing Christmas music and “deck them halls and all that stuff“…. There’s a great, if perhaps a bit unconventional Christmas playlist at the bottom in the What I’m Listening 2 section, plenty to keep you merry and bright there. Today we’re learning a Kenny Chesney song…

I love this! Kenny Chesney stops by a Key West Bar, plays a song, forgets some words, the crowd helps him out. Pretty gutsy - I’m sure he plays the song a lot at concerts, but likely has a screen with scrolling lyrics, chords, cues and whatnot at his feet or somewhere close in front of him during shows.

Different thing to just walk in and play and sing it. Anyway, I thought it was pretty cool. If you you open the YouTube below, make sure you scroll down to read the comments - cool and funny…

A Song To Play

Not surprisingly, “You And Tequila” is today’s song to play. Ed. - Did you note above in the Wikipedia article how the song is in GbMaj?

Checking in with our old friend, the Circle Of Fifths, look at the bottom of the circle for the Key of Gb - it’s the one with six, count ‘em, 6 sharps in it. That’s a lot of sharps….

Kinda explains why in the credits for the studio version, a couple of Nashville “hired gun” session guitarists, Pat Buchanan and Kenny Greenberg are listed as the main acoustic and electric guitarists, with Mr. Chesney as the lead vocalist.

On the other hand, Mr. Chesney is no slouch guitarist, as evidenced in his live, apparently impromptu appearance in a not-just-any Key West bar, doing a great job on guitar and the best he can offhand with the lyrics to one of likely dozens of songs that he does in concerts and rehearsals - and a thirteen year old song that he didn’t write to boot. Add to that, this is:

“Captain Tony's Saloon is a bar in Key West, Florida, United States, located at 428 Greene Street.

The bar has been patronized through the years by many well-known artists, writers and celebrities. When a celebrity visits, a barstool is added that is painted with that patron's name.^[^{citation needed}^] The bar includes barstools painted with the names of Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote, Jimmy Buffett, Shel Silverstein, John Prine, John F. Kennedy and Harry Truman, Mike Leach, among others.”

Credit: Wikipedia Link: Captain Tony's Saloon

So, pretty nice job, I think.

It looks to me like he’s playing the chords that are commonly used in his live performances, and I can’t blame him there either. With the crowd and such, there’s just no point to making things worse for yourself, so good for him - only the most rabid fans are likely to know the live song is in a different key from the recorded version anyway, and he certainly sounds good in either.

Here’s a link to the “Official Video” chords, if you’re feeling like a challenge…You And Tequila Chordify

If you’re like me and just as happy with Mr. Chesney’s live/concert version, with chords in the Key of GMaj, here ya go…

Watch what he does in the live video to pick up his strum pattern if you don’t fingerpick.

Lyrics below, a cool song to learn over your Christmas holiday if (like me) you’re in the northern states and thinkin’ Key West might be a real nice place to forget some song lyrics right about now… Just sayin’…

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[Verse 1]
Baby, here I am again
Kicking dust in the canyon wind
Waiting for that sun to go down
Made it up Mulholland Drive
Hell bent on getting high
High above the lights of town

[Chorus]
Because you and tequila make me crazy
Run like poison in my blood
One more night could kill me, baby
One is one too many, one more is never enough

[Verse 2]
Thirty days and thirty nights
Been putting up a real good fight
There were times I thought you'd win
It's so easy to forget
The bitter taste the morning left
Swore I wouldn't go back there again

[Chorus]
You and tequila make me crazy
Run like poison in my blood
One more night could kill me, baby
One is one too many, one more is never enough

[Verse 3]
When it comes to you
Oh, the damage I could do
It's always your favorite sins
That do you in

[Chorus]
You and tequila make me crazy
Run like poison in my blood
One more night could kill me, baby
One is one too many, one more is never enough

[Outro]
Never enough
You and tequila
You and tequila (make me crazy)

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Some Links for today:

Sorry, folks - “we’re runnin’ a little bit hot tonight” - gonna save the links I was going to post today for next week, cuz we’re already over the email length limit and that would just make it worse. In the meantime, please enjoy this video from Mr. Tony Van Veen of Disc Makers while it’s still timely….

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My song is out! Link: “Long Road Back” (click on link for streaming options)…

What I’m Listening2:

LINK»> The Christmas Playlist - just click the underlined link, it’s on Amazon

Ed. - A few old standards…..but not all….

Merry Christmas, Cheers!….. and keep playing!!

Michael Acoustic

“It’s never really final - you just run out of things you can bear to change…”