MUSIC
Okay, so we are just two songwriters who thought we'd put together a little CD "project" in hopes of it being another tool to further help promote the songs we are writing together. Fortunately, we also can accompany ourselves with instruments and are able to go play songwriter venues and other type shows. We love performing and interacting with the audiences, and whenever we can get our great group of musicians together to help us out, it's just an extra-special treat! The Atlanta, Georgia area has some of the best musicians around!!!
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Backwoods Loveosine ...came from Wil remembering an old car in the woods near his home where he lived as a teenager. "It was actually a 1978 Lincoln Continental, which is a land yacht. My girlfriend and I found it in the weeds one day and opened the back door. The inside was perfect. We got in it and yada, yada, yada. Shelia was interested in us trying to write an uptempo-funny song, and I remembered the old car while writing at my sister's house in Nashville one morning. When Shelia heard my idea, she jumped onboard, and we wrote Backwoods Limosine and then changed it to "Loveosine"trying to be clever. It worked!
Momma Left The Radio On ... When asked about "Momma," Wil says, "Momma, as I call it, was an idea I had, but I was logged jammed on a line for the chorus. I was producing my friend Ruthie Buford's CD "Listen For The Love," and we were on our way to lunch one day when I told her about the idea. I sang "Momma left the radio on, Momma left the radio on, (something something something) Momma left the radio on. I told her I needed the third line but was jammed up. A few minutes later she looks at me and says, "How about, I never knew trouble at home, 'cause momma left the radio on." I looked at her and said, "Well of course that's the line!" We went back to the studio after lunch and as she was doing vocals on another song, Momma just fell out in the floor in front of me. I wrote it down before she came back in the control room and that was that. We recorded a version of it for her CD. Ruthie died of cancer months later. I honestly think Ruthie was whispering to me for Shelia to sing that song for the Backwoods Loveosine CD because Shelia took it and put her own spin on it and made it better than it ever was. A great singer can do that. Shelia Quattlebaum is a great singer. I'm sure Ruthie agrees." Here Lives The Girl With The World's Biggest Broken Heart ...Wil says, "We called that song everything from "Little Town" to "Thanks To You" to what-have-you and never could nail the title other than "Here Lives The Girl With The World's Biggest Broken Heart" because that's the hook line. It was a song I had but never finished. I wanted to write a song about a town that had something no other town had like the biggest ball of string or the biggest paper clip or what ever puts towns on the map. Shelia heard it and it was really her that turned it around and made it what it is now. I always thought it was a good idea for a video."
Livin' Like A Californian ... Shelia: "No one ever said all songs had to be like rocket-science stuff! (Laughs) I got the idea for this song from my hair stylist. Hair stylists, when you've been going to them for a long time, really do become our friends and sometimes even our counselors on life and vice-versa. So one day I was getting my hair done, and I asked Ms. Thang (my hairdresser) how she'd been, and she said something to the effect that she figured she was doing great, living like a Calfornian (evidently), enjoying ife, and drinking her fancy wine at night. Well, there are some things you just don't say around a songwriter! ~~~ It's all in fun, and this is just a light-hearted song. Wil and I just ran with it, and it was our first attempt at writing together!"
Take This Heartache Away ... Wil says, "I wrote the lyrics for this on a Friday night and sent them to Shelia. On Saturday she sends me what is now a ... song.. she'd already put music to it! Magic. She's a genius at that! I couldn't have done better if I'd worked on it a week. We recorded it the next Monday. Funny how some songs just wanna be born. I was really proud of her for that song. She nails it when she sings it."
Shelia recalls the first thing Wil said to her after she sat there and sung it all the way through the first time... "I didn't know it was going to be a George Jones song." Shelia says this is a flat-out traditional song if she's ever heard one. She also thinks this might be in the running for the longest name of a song!
Nothin' As Lonely ..."I do have my own songs, just all me," laughs Shelia, "and this is one of them. It started out being just a demo for my own doings. I did a demo years ago on this song but have never been happy with it, so I asked Wil if I could use his studio one day to redo it. It turned out that he liked it so well, he wanted to include it on our Applewood CD, and that was okay with me! I like songs with a groove. I want to label this one as a little bluegrass and a little blues. I was pretty sad one day about something and started to cry. Down came a big-ole teardrop out of my left eye, and it hit my cheek. The first line with the melody came out immediately. Why? I don't know (laughs)... always in songwriter mode, I guess. This is a song about deep loneliness... in this lyric.. a woman misses what most likely was the love of her life. A line in the song goes 'It just cries and it cries in this cold, black room tonight'..... now that's a heart that's hurting right there. "
At the Bluebird Cafe, Nashville....
