Week #27: ALRIGHT WITH ME

Read an article this week in one of those airplane magazines that said that all song-writers had to have a song called "alright with me," and I took that as a challenge. This song is inspired by a story that Tracy Singer told me two nights ago. The opening line and melody were written with her based on a crazy road trip she had, which seems to have inspired as many as four different songs. Sounds like a great trip to me.... here is my version of "Alright."

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Alright With Me

INSPIRATION:
Tracy's story involved taking her daughter and a friend to pick up a pet pig, and seeing dozens of dead deer along the road. They passed the quaintest little town called Johnson City, and wrote a twenty minute song about it....... as well as a song about 10 dead dear, a golden phallic symbol and others..... this is yet another song inspired by that trip.

Week #26: NEVER GIVE UP ON A DREAM

Week #26!!! I'm half way there guys!!!!! I've written 26 songs and I've got 26 more to go!!! The last few weeks have been really hard and it's been really hard keeping up with the songs each week. I've wanted to throw in the towel so many times already, but I'm going to stay focused and keep chugging along!!!! I wrote this week's song to inspire myself to keep chugging along..... and never give up on the dream!!!

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INSPIRATION:
The song is literally inspired by me having to tell myself to not give up on this project, when it would be so easy to just give up.

Week #25: THE OTHER SIDE OF TWENTY-FIVE

On the twenty-fifth week of David Davila's 52 SONGS, I invited a special guest, NYC based song-writer Stephanie Nash to write a song about the number twenty-five and what it means to us. We wrote this song about turning 25.... and what it feels like to float farther and farther away from that number..... hope you like it.

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INSPIRATION:
Since it was week 25, we wanted a song called 25, and so we wrote about being young, and then NOT being young..... we literally went through all the years in our twenties and tried dissecting them... there was lots of wine involved and some pizza from 7/11............