=====Easy to Smile was re-mixed and re-mastered in November 2022===== [This is a new mix. Drums by John Bennetts have been added and pretty much everything else has been changed, at least a little. April 2002.] Sometime around 1971 I wrote these words. I don't remember writing them, but I know where they came from. I don't think I ever performed it as a song back in the day....
5 March 2023Remixed to bring the vocal forward and to balance the instruments. The piano was removed because it didn't seem to be adding anything and the end result was a bit muddy. ===== Eve and I were travelling in the Northern Territory a while back when the line "I'm not a love song kind of guy" came to me. I thought it was such an obvious title for a country song that...
In 2012 I took a songwriting course led by John Vallins in Bellingen, NSW. During the course we were assigned the task of writing a song around a prompt supplied by John. The prompt that generated this song was "Love Lies Bleeding". After the course finished John took some initial recordings done at the time and turned them into this song. Contrary to popular belief, this...
Conspiracy theorists live among us. I think they have always been here, though the current crop are more disturbing than usual. That hasn't stopped me being amused by the general silliness of most conspiracy theories. When writing a song I almost invariably write too many words. Usually I get ruthless with a red pen to wrestle it down to a manageable size. This song seems to...
=====The Best was re-mastered in September 2022===== This is a song about forgiveness. Years ago a friend's father had died. He was deeply upset because he couldn't bring himself to respect his father saying that he'd failed as a father. It was clear that he did not believe that his father had done his best. I said 'maybe not, but he probably did the best he knew how". That...
=====I'll Be Dead Before It Happens was re-mastered in September 2022===== I keep writing songs but mostly no one hears them. This one struck a chord with John Vallins, a friend who happened to have a studio and, as chance would have it, was even a musician. He liked this one, we recorded it, and the rest is history. If there actually is a history when the seas rise and fires...
Kiss It Better, Written and performed by DB WeinsteinClick here to listen Last May I wrote a post, one of my early ones when I was posting more frequently than I do now, where I announced that I was going to write a song. It was a good intention. A noble intention. And that's what it remained, an intention. I did start scribbling once, but it didn't go anywhere. Somehow, in...
I've spent a bit of time on this and now remember what it was like when I used to write songs. I wonder if my experience is common, or if I'm just doing it the way I do it. I haven't completed a song yet. I'm still playing with how to write a song. The way I started was the way I remember doing it in the deep dark past. I sat down at the guitar and started to play chords....
Somewhere, buried among piles of old letters, photos and various momentos are a number of songs I wrote a great many years ago. I seem to recall that quite a few of them were part of my personal guitar-based singer-songwriter persona. Way back when. And today I don't remember a single one of them. I wonder if they were any good. Maybe I should dig them out and try playing...