"Danger of Love" and "Blue Shadows"

These are 2 more demo songs that I recorded on a 10 day camping trip at the beginning of July. Here again, I am experimenting with different "organic" sounds with out effects or any mixing.

"Danger of Love" is one of the first song I wrote for the International Datelines that I always hated. It is hard to explain, but sometimes when you hear a song in your head as you write it will come out different when you play it with a group. And I always hated the way it turned out. And sometimes that happens, other people can't hear what you hear, you can't communicate what it is you hear and so on... It is a song that is really about my fear of falling in love. So when I write a song so deeply personal, I really want it to be just right, and it never was, so I always hated it. It was written for 2 people to sing so half the lyrics are missing naturally. Here I re-visit one more time at Ottawa Lake in Kettle Moraine State Park with only 2 tracks.

Track one: Guitar, Vocals, and a million birds

Track two: was recorded on the beach of Ottawa Lake, you can hear kids playing and boats. I put the carabiner that held my keys around the loop of my flippy floppies and smacked the bottom of my flip flops against the surface of the still lake as percussion. I realize I sing some what out of tune, but at that point I had attracted an audience and got self conscious. They saw me with my recording machine and headphones on and smacking the water with my flip flops and probably thought I was some kind of crazy hippy scientist or something. This became a reoccurring obstacle for me, but I learned to deal with it. This was the first song I recorded on my journey. Here is the link now: "Danger of Love"

The next song is a cover called "Blue Shadows" that is apparently written by Randy Newman, but I know no other version than the one in the movie the "Three Amigos!"

I sang this song nearly every night to myself. One lesson I tried to learn was to over come my fear of the darkness in the wilderness. I was all alone, there was nothing except me and critters and my fire. Frankly I am/was pretty scared, of the dark, of being alone in the woods, of noises and movement I can't see. I can climb up high things and jump off, no prob, I can catch a bat, I can comfortably give a speech to a large group of people, but I am terrified of lightning, and being alone in the woods when it is dark. I had to face that . I'm not going to lie, for me it was extremely hard. I can't even express how badly I wanted comforts of a conversation or headlights or a radio or something to take my mind off the fear of being alone in the midnight woods. But I did it and I feel more confident about my place in this world. I sang this to the stars to help myself relax the 6 nights I was alone. I don't even know where this was recorded, somewhere far out, and NOT on the crusty (not trusty) map.

Again 2 tracks

Track one:Guitar / Vocals

Track two: Me building a fire to have some light and calm my imagination down.

"Blue Shadows"