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Title: Long is the Road - andy casson
Post by: andy casson on June 09, 2013, 07:18:01 AM
Sunday musings

enjoy :)

Long is the Road
Words & Music Andy Casson
9th June 2013
Wide is the river that flows to the sea
She cries to my soul
Come lay down your head and lets dream

And wide is the road that's easy to see
She lies to my soul
Come lay down your woes and let's speak

High time to let it go
And wide is the ocean, wide is the sea
Long is the road inside of me

As wide as the ocean our life seems to be
You cry to my soul
Come take up my hand and let's see

And long is the road to face you and me
You sigh in my soul
Come take up my hand and be free

High time to let it go
And wide is the ocean, wide is the sea
Long is the road inside of me

Title: Re: Long is the Road - andy casson
Post by: Farrell Jackson on June 09, 2013, 09:17:00 AM
Good song Andy. I like the lively drums and your vocal delivery is tops!

Farrell
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Post by: Hook on June 09, 2013, 11:50:56 AM
Rock on with those rockin drums and that powerhouse chorus! Love that tone you get on the lead guitar.
Rock on!
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Post by: Hilary on June 09, 2013, 03:37:04 PM
Oooooh top notch Mr C - I like it :)
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Post by: Jarle on June 10, 2013, 01:29:29 PM
This is powerful and hypnotic. Love it.

JOA
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Post by: Kenny B on June 11, 2013, 09:07:31 AM
The power and soul is always present ... cool drums too ... DIG IT!!!

kb
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Post by: SE on June 11, 2013, 01:43:00 PM
Moody rock goodness, cool vox too, excellent listen!!
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Post by: Tangled Wires on June 11, 2013, 02:24:25 PM
You really do put out some outstanding songs Andy.

That simple but insanely hooky piano part during the verses drives the song along beautifully, kind of delicate but powerful at the same time.

Love that breakdown around 2.45 with the spoken background vocal  and how it all then picks up again for the finale

The drums are really cool, really interesting varied patterns...what do you use?

Powerful, melodic and utterly brilliant!!
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Post by: Daniel Storey on June 11, 2013, 03:11:50 PM
very nice moody minor key piece... cool progression and melody man.. sweet production... How did you do the drums? they sound great...
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Post by: Rata-tat-tat on June 11, 2013, 04:37:48 PM
I hope I'm not double posting... I keep hitting post... and nothing happens. I'll try one more time... Hopefully I haven't commented 10 times on yer tune LOL. Andy have to echo the drums... has that metal vibe with the double bass and honestly I like to play that lick quite often with the snare accent using a quadruplet AKA (Quads). You can put a quads have become a very versatile fill for me. So... now I have to update my Andy Casson greatest hits folder... I don't think you've posted anything that hasn't made it there.... unless I missed something. AWESOME
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Post by: bruno on June 11, 2013, 05:01:03 PM
Wow Andy, this is great - love this track.  You have some wicked chord progressions in this - this sounds friggin awesome.

Great, great tune - you have excelled on this one. Brilliant.
B
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Post by: Greeny on June 12, 2013, 05:02:02 AM
Another big hitter from you. massive, in fact. Dragged me in from the intro, and took me deep into that beautifully-balanced mix. I love the piano part - a pensive little motif that adds a dark edge to everything somehow. The spoken part is Floydy and perfect. The whole thing exudes quality. Fantastic.
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Post by: andy casson on June 15, 2013, 12:00:02 AM
Thanks guys for all the kind comments! The drums are Sonars Session Drummer loops, I will check which ones I used, I did play around with the tempo and loops for a fair few hours before settling. I like it, but wonder if the tempo could be still a bit faster, and I wish I could play piano, that verse hook is my incredibly dodgy playing! Also need to think about the vox and backing IMHO, but still happy with it for a Sunday morning song...

cheers
Andy
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Post by: Redler on June 15, 2013, 04:24:25 AM
Impressive job on vocals and lyrics!! The lead guitar is superb! Top notch production as always!

Kari
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Post by: SwanSong on June 15, 2013, 04:57:36 PM
Great imagination great lyrics and vocals. just thought in the mix
could have brought the vocals up . as u do have good one.s and
should b heard . other than that fine peice of music cheers NEIL .!
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Post by: Groundy on October 17, 2017, 10:54:27 PM
Missed this beauty originally,
Nice one Andy,
Courtesy of The Random Dozen.



Alex.
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Post by: Redler on October 18, 2017, 01:10:41 AM
Top class...thanks for the bump.