The energy is building over at Pete’s Candy Store. Every week gets a little richer. The crowds keep getting larger and more enthusiastic. This time around they wouldn’t let us leave the stage before an encore.
Our theme this week was Tin Pan Originals so we put together a set of our original songs from our last two records and included some that we haven’t recorded yet. One of them doesn’t even have a title and I was writing the lyrics back stage. I can tell you that it is a love song and it went over real well. More to come on that as it develops.
This week our featured tune is the title track from our second album, Alice McNulty. It’s a real relaxed drinking song and features a little bit of story telling and a special trumpet solo using a very rare trumpet mute called a Buzz-Wow. Clifton bought this about a month ago and we recently took it apart at retooled to give it its intended raspy sound. At one point in the story I’m talking about how Alice used to blow smoke rings. I pantomimed a gesture that everyone at Pete’s could see but it didn’t translate to the recording so I’ll describe it here. Alice would blow smoke rings by taking a drag off of her cigarette (A Pall Mall, Viceroy or similar), make a little “o” shape with her mouth and then tap on her cheeks rapidly and very lightly. It would produce a stream of perfect little o’s floating up and out over the card table. Half way through the trumpet solo you can here my musical interpretation of the same. Enjoy.
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Next week’s theme: We’ll have special guest bassist Pete Maness with us and we’re going to play rockin’, rock-a-billy, rockers and serious slinky shuffles. Until then…