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D Kaul's SoundClick blog - Tips for writing lyrics for blues songs
Most blues songs start out: "I woke up this morning" or "I got a good woman"...Not good unless you add something nasty in the next line like "With the meanest dog in town. Blues cars are Chevys,Fords, Old Caddillacs. Blues don't travel in Volvo's or BMW's or sport utility vehicles. Blues do travel on Buses and southbound Trains! You can have the Blues in Chicago or Memphis but not on Sanibel Island or Disneyland or Hawaii. You can't have the blues take place in a shopping mall or Starbucks, go out in the parking lot or better yet back behind in the alley where the trash cans are. Good places are the Highway, the Jail, the empty bed, Bottom of a whiskey bottle. Bad places are golf courses, gallery openings or Ivy league institutions. Do you have the right to have the blues? Yes if you shot a man in Memphis or you can't be satisfied, but not if you have all of your teeth and were once blind and can see again through modern surgery. Blues drinks are cheap wine, Whiskey, muddy water. Not Perrier, Pilsner or Dr Pepper. If death occurs in a cheap motel or an electric chair or a train track that's great! But in no way should death occur from liposuction or fatigue at a tennis match. Blues names for women are Sadie, Big Momma or Louise. Good names for men are Joe C. Willie B or Lightning. The names Amber Susie or Heather should never be used no matter how many men they gunned down in Memphis. So keep in mind no matter how sad and tragic your life is you shouldn't be singing the blues if you own a Blackberry or drive a Hummer!
posted by D Kaul on Fri May 1, 2009 @ 09:45 AM     13 comments    post a comment
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Superb songwriting advice - can you do one for country too ?

Thor / H O N K / Wasteland Teardrop
:: posted by honkheads on Sat May 2, 2009 @ 04:25 PM   
smile :) haha !!! THAT WAS FUN ! And by the way - I can see Thor ask about a country... I can define that: A real countrysong is about about the girl who lives in a shelter close to the desert, she got married to early, got children too early, her husbond drink up their money, cheats on her with the brown eyed girl from the local cofee bar, and now she also lost her job. So she's sitting on the doorstep and dream herself back to the time where things were less complicated. Actually I made that song down to all these details on "Back on my Own" smile :) LOL...
:: posted by joensson on Mon May 4, 2009 @ 02:28 PM   
big grin :D big grin :D big grin :D Lol, I love this!

I read an article once that said all blues songs MUST include bad grammar: Example - (bad) My women treats me incorrectly, (good) my woman done me wrong. big grin :D LOL.
:: posted by rodrica on Mon May 4, 2009 @ 03:39 PM   
Dale, this blog is really awesome smile :) smile :) smile :)
I came by to spin your great songs,
Hugs and Blessings,
Lekzee
:: posted by LEKZEE ZAYNA on Mon May 4, 2009 @ 07:23 PM   
Omg this is funny! but suddenly all i want to do is write the Blues using all your taboos wink ;)
:: posted by sumR on Tue May 5, 2009 @ 01:35 AM   
This was hilarious Dale!!!! Thanks for passing it on to me!smile :)

Couldn't agree more with you, on every point!

cheers,

Brett
:: posted by Brett Service on Tue May 5, 2009 @ 12:24 PM   
So according to your instructions a the blues goes something like this:

I've got a good nasty woman - the meanest dog in town
In the alley behind the trashcan she waited to gun me down
but I got away in my silverpainted cadillac and drove down to the south.

There I met Sadie - oh she was one of a kind
dragged me out of the jail and into a bottle of cheap wine.
Though I felt as if I was hitted by a train - I was never selfish
The day I felt the blues I was gunned down in Memphis...

Is that so ???
:: posted by joensson on Tue May 5, 2009 @ 03:05 PM   
lol... big grin :D
:: posted by Morten Gjermundsen on Wed May 6, 2009 @ 03:40 PM   
very true! "If you wanna sing the blues, you gotta pay your dues" no way around it wink ;) cool blog! and thanks for the station add smile :)
:: posted by softsong on Wed May 6, 2009 @ 10:12 PM   
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You got this one right brother!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:: posted by estrad on Thu May 7, 2009 @ 08:58 PM   
Ah yes another somebody done me wrong song, and it is all about, the incorrect gramatic usage of words..I aint gonna take it, I think I'll pour some whiskey in the jaro. Oh he done did me wrong, and has a cheaten heart. My Willy is a slimy, grimy sun of a bi***, cause he done took sadie in his pontiac's back seat and aint tellin me why? Yessup Ima gonna gun him down with a broom handle...ha ha
:: posted by Rockaway33 on Sun May 17, 2009 @ 11:50 AM   
Huh? You are hilarous, Dale ! Thanks for the laugh...

Shelia
:: posted by Shelia D. on Sat Jul 11, 2009 @ 09:45 AM   
Is you is or is you ain't..........you forgot that onewink ;)!

Ya gotta love it,

Mauri.
:: posted by kitara on Wed Aug 12, 2009 @ 01:23 PM   
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