Chords and lyrics to the seeker the who
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So, Seaside Town is the story of such a person, a woman in a little seaside town an artist, she wants something more. Seemed like a lot of that was happening in different ways, the last few years. But people go missing all the time in day to day life, invisible to others, not fitting in. When there’s a news report about somebody gone missing, there’s often the inference that something terrible has happened to them. The lyrics began with crows and vultures, which came from Van Gogh’s later paintings, but then I got the notion of a person gone missing. Kudos to David Henry for the gypsy fiddle, as well. The basic backing for most of the tunes went down in two or three takes, with overdubs added later.
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This was also the first track I cut with the band that comprises most of the record I’d worked with Paul Slivka (bass) before, but not Chris Benelli (drums) or Dave Coleman (guitar) and we were able to work quickly and with verve. But a straight boss nova didn’t seem to work for the lyrics and so I tried revving it up and that’s where it wound up. So, I play these diminished chords, up and down the neck, in the verses, and that’s where that came from. Seaside Town started as an Antonio Jobim type bossa nova, I love Brazilian music – Marcos Valle, Joao Gilberto, people like that. I wanted to have a good mix of tunes before going into the studio with a band.
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So, I demoed everything at home, usually a couple times, trying out different arrangements, coming up with a lot of the counterpoint lines, stuff like that. I wanted to feature a couple of them today, tell us a little about the mystery in “Seaside Town” and the animated video that accompanies it.ĭoug: Yeah, you know Duke Ellington said there are only two kinds of music – good music and bad music, right? Anyway, on this record, I wanted to experiment with making the songs stretch a bit, lyrically and musically, distinguishing them from my past work and from each other.
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ĪnaLee: I hear different influences musically on the album, a little reggae and jazz blended with folk, but not your typical folk rock. “Carry Me” and “Wintertime” were both from that vantage point, on the record, they both started as poems but were changed and improved, honestly, in song structure. Sometimes I’ll try something in prose and it doesn’t quite work and I'll hammer it into a song. Sometimes, of course, melodies or musical ideas come with a fragment of a lyric. Anyway, I stepped away from music altogether when my son was growing up, so I sort of turned that switch off during that period of time, but in general, ideas come and sometimes they suggest a musical background, sometimes not. Really, this is also true of art, books, film, as well. I’m old school in that I really love albums that carry this idea, depth that a listener can rediscover over time. With so many creative outlets, do you find that you write specifically for music or is it sort of an amalgamation of everything you’d been observing and writing about over these years?ĭoug: Thanks for the kind words, and yes, the record is intentionally crafted to be something one can return to, with layers, musically and lyrically. The stories in the songs are easy to get lost in and revisit time and again. His fourth book, Ten Seconds In-Between is available now.ĪnaLee: It’s been a decade or so since your last record, I think long-time fans would agree, The Day Deserved was worth the wait! Although I don’t think there’s a connection to your book title, Ten Seconds In-Between and the fact that it’s been about ten years in-between since your last release, it is all sort of about connection in the big picture. Songs like, “Gandy Dancer”, “Seaside Town” and “Higher Ground” could each be a Netflix or Hulu series. The Day Deserved is the kind of record that draws you back again and again, and with each listen comes a new discovery in the stories he sings. With eight albums and three books earning Independent Publisher Award, Pushcart Prize, Nashville Music Award, and Independent Music Award nominations, he’s back with a new album and book. Chicago bred, Nashville based Doug Hoekstra is a poet, songwriter, musician, published author and a father, who stepped away from it all to spend time raising his son, write, teach and work for a non-profit.