MP3 Garry Gust - Sawdust Serenade

Sixties style country

10 MP3 Songs
COUNTRY: Traditional Country, COUNTRY: Country Pop



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SAWDUST SERENADE

What makes any particular piece of music a âcountry song?â
Is it fiddles and steal guitars, and lyrics about getting stoned in order to drown heartache?

To me itâs a certain âfeelâ in the way the musicians play the song.
Itâs an ageless influence of flavor that seems to insist that even the most saddest of songs should sound somewhat cheerfully bogus,until the song makes us stop in our tracks and think: (Hey,that songâs about me - or someone I know!)

My earliest influence from Country music came in the Fifties
and Sixties, when the usual top 30 pop hits were invaded by
the odd alien sounding song like, âI walk The Line,â
âSinging The Blues,â âHello Walls,â and the Patsy Cline, Jim
Reeves, and Ray Price hits. And then later, Eddie Rabbit and the combined works of Jimmy Webb and Glenn Campbell.

I started writing songs when I was 14. Most of them were
pop-rocked influenced, and then in the early Sixties the
influence came from folk music.
By the Eighties, there were two official Country radio stations where I lived, and when I would tune them in I couldnât help feel a bit let down by those slick sounding current songs,compared to the earlier decades of good old sloppy country music.
And since then, Iâve expressed a good deal of my songwriting
inspirations from the influences of my adolescence.

If you like all kinds of music, then you might like this album.
But, from my own songwriterâs point of view, it is pure
Country.

The first four songs present the negative side of love from
a young inexperienced point of view. Then the next four
songs get more positive as adulthood enters the picture.

None of these songs are autobiographical, but more of a
culmination of experiences over the years, either personal
or observed.

Letâs start with I SEE YOU AGAIN: finding love at a young
age presents many feelings of passion, affection, possessiveness and jealousy, until suddenly we arenât wanted by the one we love, and wonder why.

A SHOT IN THE DARK goes on to analyze our feelings of
loveâs sudden disappearance.

BIG HEARTED GIRL â there is always someone in our past
who loves everyone, but wonât let anyone love them in a physical
way.
I WISHED SOMEBODY LOVED ME is a song about the last
cries of desperation as we enter adulthood.

LONG WINTER NIGHTS is about the process of âfinding
oneâs selfâ on the road to maturity.

MOON SHINE. Finally in command of our feelings, we
become enabled with romantic power.

SUGAR LIPS. We learn how to sincerely seduce.

LETâS HURRY. This is a special idealized song about how it should
be to find the love of our life, marry, have kids, and grow old
together.
BIGGEST FOOL IN TOWN. An old guitarist friend of mine told me
about how patient his wife was as he went out and played six nights a
week at the local bars. He was very thankful that she had not left him
long ago, and hoped that soon he would spend more time with her to
make up for all her lonely nights over the years.

And lastly, a short instrumental, SAWDUST SERENADE. This is about daydreaming of riding a bronco at a local rodeo. The gate opens, you bounce around fora long six seconds, and then youâre flying through the air until you thud down hard flat on your back on a patch of soft sawdust,
and start hearing music in your head.

Cheers,
Garry Gust