Hard Times

About this film

As often happens I woke up this morning with a tune in my head. I also had the one line, "You don't think I'd wait on a train." I picked up my guitar and had the song going and a scratch copy made in less than five minutes. Then I started on the lyric. Of course I watched the news last night seeing Obama and McCain meeting with President Bush about the economy. So "Hard Times" came naturally and in just a few minutes I had the song done. We had to go to town to fix a tire so it was a few hours before I recorded it. I went direct to my Iriver H320 using the internal mic. I run RockBox so I can record CD quality sound but the internal mic is mono. I put the second take into SAW Classic for post. I rendered two mp3s and a flac and then I started uploading. I put it up at Delta Boogie Radio and then to archive.org. I'll post it on KGPL next. So this is the new world for songwriters. Write a song, record the song, publish the song, and promote the song all in a matter of hours. This exact text will go up on my change the world with music diary on DailyKos and I'll be discussing the song with listeners while it scrolls off the recent list. Pimp Your song. What a blast! Thanks, Hairy Larr…

Directors & creators

Larry Heyl

Subjects

music, protest, topical, humorous, hard times, hairy larry, hairylarry

View on archive.org ↗