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Imitation of Life
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August 2001 saw the beginning of this album-Five Score, the "100 Song Album." I started with a notebook of two and a half pages of song titles, and as I wrote and recorded the songs I checked them off in the notebook. My original vision was to have a three CD set of 100 maximum length 2:48 second songs. This has changed, however, and it is a 4 CD set with 25 songs on each disc. I have opted to include a few previoulsy recorded, but at the time homeless songs on the 100 song CD. Those songs are: 1. We Can Linger 2. God is Shaking Up the World (Recorded in Galax) I recorded a few songs written in years past that had never seen the light of day, and recorded songs written in years past that have never been recorded. I also solicited my music-making friends for collaborations and contributions, and their efforts were fantastic. Prabir Mehta of the Rachel Nevadas stepped up to the plate with a song written for the CD, and he played guitar on 2 other songs. Lewis Harris from Pent-Up House and Bucket contributed a fantastic song that I sang over, Menaflower unwittingly contributed an outtake from their new CD, Monty Jones let me cover a song he had already recorded as The Ukulele Hipster Kings, Greg Garner from Music for Viola handed me an unfinished guitar and drum thing he had that I added words and keyboards to, Jenny Jussell sang with me on a few songs, Dave McCormack played guitar, bass, and dobro on a few, Tom McCormack sang one for me, Hunter Boxley played drums on one, Mike McCormack of the Waking Hours contributed a guitar progression I turned into a song, as well as a drum line I did the same thing to. This thing has kept me going over the past six months, and I hope everyone that gets one finds something they like on it.
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Peak #1,923
Peak in subgenre #185
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Lee Harris
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2001
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July 21, 2005
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MP3 2.2 MB 128 kbps 0:00
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37. Imitation of Life 10/13/01 9 PM-11 PM After setting up the equipment in Oilville a riff started going through my head, so I sequenced it on the keyboard with a piano sound thinking I'd just be doing it to remember the riff. I got a little over involved and added a drum sequence, clarinet, and organ. The riff was designed to be a "math rock" sort of thing-I had envisioned it as a bass line to a weird instrumental or something. Somehow it devolved into nerd-rock. I came up with an idea for lyrics and promptly started layering a 5-part vocal harmony over the entire thing and ended up with a very original little tune. The logical follow-up was I sat at the piano and started writing Christmas Songs. two of them sound like Vaudeville/McCartney tap-dancing songs ala "Honey Pie," and they use alot more chords than I usually do-but since they won't be on the 100 song album I'll just list the titles here-"Admit It, You Like It," and "Christmas is Lovely." The third one is more modern rock and doesn't have a title yet.
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