Tornado Sally

[Farrell Jackson]

Tornado Sally is the song that I lost when the hard drive in my Fostex VF160 crashed. I found a used drive on Ebay and it's up and running again. So I had to start from scratch with this song.
2 tracks of electric rhythm (Ernie Ball OLP).
2 tracks of lead guitar and fills with the OLP.
1 track of down and dirty blues harp.
1 track of bass (Squire Jazz)
1 track of A/E Ibanez Talman.
3 tracks of lead and harmony vocals.
2 tracks of Zoom drums.
I used a Crate V5 Tube amp mic'ed with a MXL Ribbon mic for all guitars and harmonica.
And a Neumann TLM 103 mic for all the vocals.

Tornado Sally (Farrell Jackson ©08-10-24)
(V1) A thunder storm is on the horizon
Birds in the sky, swirling and divin'
An erie silence, hangin'  in the air
A rumbling train, going nowhere
(V2) The whistle blows a high pitched warning
In a couple of hours, the sun breaks mornin'
Make a quick decision, to get out of town
Or hang around to see what goes down
(Chr) Waiting with shallow breath. There ain't no time  to rest
A wild force in the valley. Tornado Sally's coming down the alley
(solos guitar and harmonica)
(V3) She'll be prancin' and dancin' on the table tops 
And kick you in the face if you tell her to stop
She'll throw a beer across the room 
Take cover boys, she's lookin' for a groom
(V4) The twisted sister, comes once a year
Mean as a devil with a nasty stare
She'll have a smile but you'll have a frown
Lawdy momma, Sally's touched down
(Chr) Waiting with shallow breath. There ain't no time  to rest
A wild force in the valley. Tornado Sally's coming down the alley
(Repeat Chorus)

[StephenM]

well hell man... if this is just so damn great... just reading your process I am going... yeah... I don't know a darned thing..

this song rocks to the stratosphere... it is like those trillion watt lasers they are pointing at the sky.

trillion of watt of pure rock goodness right here Farrell.. I swear there is an organ in here... but it gotta be the harp and guitars.  the mix is so great.

cool stuff...

you should write a follow on about a poor chap that takes her up... or maybe a dude that wrangles her and tames her and the two live happily forever.
 

[TPB]

Jamming this on the back porch sounds so good glad you could get recovered
Great sound love the harp in there
Tim

[thetworegs]

This beauty hits the spot loving that kinda sabbath riff that's turned bluesy lovely tone on that lead then that harp jumps in love it....a good one to wake up to with my coffee this morning

[Ray Brookes]

Great groove in this swampy blues track, Farrell. Excellent guitar work and that blues harp coming in from the left is awesome. Vocals, instrumentation is all stellar and I would've loved to be in on this one if only playing some keys or whatever. Love it.

[Zoltan]

This was way more brooding than i thought it would be.

Instead of an ode for women of ill repute you took it into other realms.

That southern rock meets swamp dogs boogie really twisted my brain and those vocs certainly fit the bill.

A winner in my books.