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It's time to vote for our next two festivals which will run from September 1 to October 31. Voting starts now and runs for 5 days. You can change your vote any time until the closing of the poll on August 30th. To do so, click "Remove vote" to cancel your previous vote, then vote again.

This poll is for the "Originals" festival. There is a separate poll for the "Covers" festival here:

https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=23798.0 (https://songcrafters.org/forum/index.php?topic=23798.0)

Please vote in both polls.

As always, we encourage you to write an original song for the Originals festival, but covers are welcome too unless otherwise stated in the festival's description.

You may have noticed that we've changed the category names. The former "Artists/Covers" is now simply "Covers". The meaning hasn't changed though. Any festival with one or more specific artists as its theme is always a covers-only festival, so it made sense to shorten the name. The former "Theme/Genre" is now "Originals". It's a bit of a misnomer since, although we encourage you to write an original song if you can, covers will be allowed too in most cases. We just wanted to shorten and simplify the name.

So, "Covers" is covers only, and "Originals" is originals preferred but covers welcome unless otherwise stated in the festival's description.

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• MythicalPlace Fest - Write a song about a mythical place (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mythological_places).
  
  
• FatalDiseaseFest - Songs about fatal diseases.
  
  
• Original Country and Western songs - Write an original country & western song - no covers for this one
  
  
• Radical Songs - inspired by the likes of bill hicks george carlin lenny bruce et al pushing the boundaries.
  
  
• JingleFest - Write an advertising jingle for any product or service; real or imagined. Or cover your favourite jingle.
  
  
• Unusual Time Signatures - Songs in an unusual time signature (5/4, 7/8, etc.). Most popular songs are in 4/4, 3/4 or some derivative (8/8, 6/8, etc.). The idea of this fest is to record something that's not in those common time signatures.
  
  
• SwampFest - Songs about the bayous and swamp people.
  
  
• DreamFest - Songs about dreams or dreaming.

I think I'll write a radical country and western song about a swampy dude sitting in Útgarðar, dreaming about getting a new liver



. ..... oh and it would be in 13/4 and catchy as hell, and be an advert for Cøca Cøla

Quote from: Geir on August 26, 2015, 02:44:54 AMI think I'll write a radical country and western song about a swampy dude sitting in Útgarðar, dreaming about getting a new liver



. ..... oh and it would be in 13/4 and catchy as hell, and be an advert for Cøca Cøla

Good idea - and the rest of us will vote on it...

We need an "all of the above option".

Concerning the name changes, I for one kinda like having a covers fest & an originals fest. I've always thought of it that way at least.

How early can we post songs? I've assumed and bought a cowboy hat.
Yee haw!

Quote from: Hook on August 28, 2015, 09:51:58 AMHow early can we post songs?

Please don't post songs for either festival until midnight Tuesday, September 1st Greenwich Mean Time
(which is 8 PM Monday, August 31st in Tampa, Florida).

Midnight Sept 1 GMT in various locations:

California, USA (PDT)		GMT - 7		Mon, Aug 31 at 5:00 PM
Chicago, USA (CDT)		GMT - 5		Mon, Aug 31 at 7:00 PM
Tampa, Florida, USA (EDT)		GMT - 4		Mon, Aug 31 at 8:00 PM
Ontario, Canada (EDT)		GMT - 4		Mon, Aug 31 at 8:00 PM
New Brunswick, Canada (AST)		GMT - 3		Mon, Aug 31 at 9:00 PM
United Kingdom (BST)		GMT + 1		Tue, Sept 1 at 1:00 AM
France (CET)		GMT + 2		Tue, Sept 1 at 2:00 AM
Norway (CET)		GMT + 2		Tue, Sept 1 at 2:00 AM
Finland (EET)		GMT + 3		Tue, Sept 1 at 3:00 AM
Sydney, Australia		GMT + 10		Tue, Sept 1 at 10:00 AM

If your location isn't in this list, see the following page to find your current offset from GMT:

http://www.greenwichmeantime.com/ (http://www.greenwichmeantime.com/)

Same hour in France and Norway ! If I loose my watch I'll ask Geir what time it is !

Country music is way out of my radar, could you please recomend me an artist and a disc our two to find inspiration ?

Daniel

Quote from: danieldesete on August 29, 2015, 03:22:46 AMCountry music is way out of my radar, could you please recomend me an artist and a disc our two to find inspiration ?

The term "Country & Western" usually refers to classic country music from the 1920s to the 1960s and includes "Western" (cowboy) music. After the sixties, "Western" was dropped by music marketing people and the newer music of the genre became known as Country. It changed quite a bit and merged with pop, rock, etc. to make it more marketable to the masses. :( Personally, I can't stand the new country music, so I'm only familiar with classic Country & Western.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music)

If I could only recommend one artist to check out, I think it would be Hank Williams Sr.

Here are some classic country hits and some popular western songs with links to YouTube.

Classic Country

• Hey Good Lookin' - Hank Williams (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95aP0OWx4jY)
• Why Don't You Love Me Like You Used to Do - Hank Williams (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSWnoZJ8RTc)
• I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You) - Hank Williams (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHvLwacnGmQ)
• Wolverton Mountain - Claude King (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gytzqOooE3Y)
• Abilene - George Hamilton IV (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5l8CamP0ko)
• Six Days on the Road - Dave Dudley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ8pOXbS8HY)
• Mama Tried - Merle Haggard (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luUK-b6X0ik)
• Okie from Muskogee - Merle Haggard (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iYY2FQHFwE)
• Oh Lonesome Me - Don Gibson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z4kPGcmyPI)
• Flowers on the Wall - The Statler Brothers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq41gFBcm8Y)
• Young Love - Sonny James (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3i_t094xqo)
• In the Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nayUPkpWBLo)
• Please Help Me, I'm Falling - Hank Locklin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DndK5hZBgu0)

Western

• El Paso - Marty Robbins (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spaPETdoRVM)  (probably my favourite cowboy song - great tune, fabulous lyrics)
• The Streets of Laredo - Marty Robbins (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L14UKBjC5Is)
• Home on the Range - Roy Rogers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KlZuk5N2co)
• Red River Valley - Gene Autry (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31uGvYBj0j4)
• Old Paint - Linda Ronstadt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAHGbhmGttQ)
• The Ballad of Paladin (theme from "Have Gun - Will Travel") - Johnny Western (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgvxu8QY01s)
• Jingle Jangle Jingle - Tex Ritter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_9pVRZ0QKw)
• Ghost Riders in the Sky - Burl Ives (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2klh2cTa_Q)

Thanks a Million 64 Guitars !

Quote from: Geir on August 26, 2015, 02:44:54 AMI think I'll write a radical country and western song about a swampy dude sitting in Útgarðar, dreaming about getting a new liver



. ..... oh and it would be in 13/4 and catchy as hell, and be an advert for Cøca Cøla

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cant find a snigger snigger Man I love your musical imagination ;D ;D ;D ;D
I'm gonna write a song about wishing I was a cowboy -riding the range (over here the range was an old fashioned big metal cooking oven/fire place linked to radiators around the house ;D)In other words get down off the fire place granny -your too old to ride the range ;D ;D ;D ;D

Voting is closed and the winner is Original Country and Western songs - Write an original country & western song - no covers for this one.

The new festivals start Sept 1 at midnight GMT.  See this post (https://songcrafters.org/forum/index.php?topic=23799.msg291338#msg291338) above.

I've already written and recorded thee country and western type songs.  My inner puppy is straining on the leash.

Yeah, I'm working g in my 2ND one now. I couldn't wait to post the first one and it was a heartbreak song anyway. Come to think of it ,this one is a heartbreak song also. We should extend heartbreakfest kinda silently, unofficially off in the background...like a shadowfest.
Shadow on!

Quote from: Oldrottenhead on August 31, 2015, 06:35:20 AMI've already written and recorded thee country and western type songs.  My inner puppy is straining on the leash.

Quote from: Hook on August 31, 2015, 06:51:25 AMYeah, I'm working g in my 2ND one now. I couldn't wait to post the first one and it was a heartbreak song anyway. Come to think of it ,this one is a heartbreak song also. We should extend heartbreakfest kinda silently, unofficially off in the background...like a shadowfest.
Shadow on!

Spanners.