This song hospital again is my new favorite song. This often happens where I write a song and then just keep thinking about it and keep playing it and it just becomes the favorite. That's kind of how I choose songs that I want to record, is I just like the song, I like things about a chord progression, lyrics, hook, the vibe or the feel, lotta different elements can come together to give me that feeling about a song. This one I recorded with the band in Muscle Shoals. You may remember when we stopped in there on our day off to record with my friend, Jimmy Nutt at his Nutthouse Studio. Well, that was a learning experience more than anything. We just sort of played around with the song and the arrangement. A lot of great ideas that came out of that. Unfortunately, that is not the definitive recording. I have some real issues with some of our performance and the arrangement choices. The groove, the feel wasn't really what I had in mind after listening to the demo and listening to our recording. So, I just decided we needed to do some more work on the song and record it again. That's how it goes, sometimes you record a song and are happy, then listen to it later and you think what the hell was I thinking? The OG Drinkin Night was like that. Somewhere we have a hopped up version that has more of a place on a Jerry Jeff Live record than anything on Leaving Time. The bullet ya gotta bite is tough sometimes. But, it is always wort5h going back and making it more like you want it to be. That could mean bummin the band out if they were happy with it. It means spending more time and money on recording it when the value of recorded music is somewhere down there with landlines and mood rings.

FInally last night we got the core band together me, Jes, Mason and Keith on a rainy night, I might add. We worked that one into something we all felt good about. In addition we worked up another kinda country rocker, Arkansas Mud that is our first “Guitarmony” song with Jes and me. Pretty damn cool once we figured out the groove, i’ll share that one, later. WIth these two songs I believe I have enough for a new record to release this fall. But I will have to sit and listen to everything to ascertain such. Maybe we’ll have listening party on line and y’all can help me decide if I have a good record?

Anyway here is a live, warts and all recording of our rehearsal of Hospital Again. This is loosely based on some personal experiences over recent years with friends and family in and out of hospitals. The opening lines “He’s in the hospital again, thanks for letting me know. This is the time of life when people start to go” is about as true of a line as i’ve written recently. It says a lot without saying much. A universal understanding I think many of us are familiar with

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He’s in the hospital again