A down-tempo, live arrangement of "Guess It's Alright", as heard on my debut EP, "Side A", and the upcoming album, "Floating in the Backseat While the World Goes By".
In the original "album version" of this track, I'm playing every instrument, recorded in overdubbed, track-by-track fashion. Re-imagining this song with the band was a really rewarding experience in how different, and frankly, moodier it ended up sounding. I feel that this version of the tune captures more of the self-pitying, infatuated, and exhausted feelings I had when I wrote it in the first place, whereas the original version more-so captures as a snapshot of what I was listening to, and what I had access to at the time.
Morgan and Dylan's harmonies and the personality they bring to it, and the tasteful restraint of Ian, Max, and John, who are musicians perfectly capable of playing more technical and busy arrangements - these are things that I'm very proud to have arranged and been apart of.
lyrics
I'm sick of hearing people talk about
All the things that they don't mean
I'm sick of myself
Doing the same thing
I'd like to be there when you wake up
If only to make sure that it's me and not someone else
I'd like to be there with you tonight
But I fucked it up so I guess it's alright
I'd like to show you my tattoos
Then maybe you could show me yours
I'll keep on knocking for just a little while
Even though I know you locked the door
credits
from Guess It's Alright/Say So,
released February 24, 2019
Derek Deon: Guitar - Vocals, Composition, Lyrics
Dylan James Vaughn - Bass, Vocals
Morgan Graham - Vocals, Cover Art
Ian McCarty - Keys
John Johns - Guitar
Max Malcomb - Auxiliary Percussion
Derek Deon is a songwriter, performer, and recording artist based in Ashland, Oregon. Being a producer who enjoys using the
studio and the stage as a sonic canvas, he enjoys somber, sensuous music, and copious amounts of reverb and delay in his guitar and vocal tones....more
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