I feel like we must save Sammie at all costs but also fear him and his nefarious but largely harmless plans for the end of the world.

This was just delightful. Sitting in the circle with you around the fire, smoking the night away, singin' and clappin' and snappin' and knee-slappin'.

I feel like we must save Sammie at all costs but also fear him and his nefarious but largely harmless plans for the end of the world. This was just delightful. Sitting in the circle with you around the fire, smoking the night away, singin' and clappin' and snappin' and knee-slappin'. <3

Definite campfire song. Not sure what t”feedback was provide, but it worked so I thank them as well!

Definite campfire song. Not sure what t”feedback was provide, but it worked so I thank them as well!

love the harmonies ooh and the casio yais!  Another soothing progression!

love the harmonies <3 ooh and the casio yais! Another soothing progression! :)

I have said this all week, but this song is just sooo good.  And, crazy catchy... that chorus, is like IMPOSSIBLE to not sing along with.  So well done. 

I have said this all week, but this song is just sooo good. And, crazy catchy... that chorus, is like IMPOSSIBLE to not sing along with. So well done.

holy crap everything about this is awesome

awesome song, awesome drawing!

very elliott smith - love the "you're mad they tried to kill me" line
the rhythm on "smoke through the night" was epic

i don't know who sammie is, i thought this was gonna be about a sandwich

holy crap everything about this is awesome awesome song, awesome drawing! very elliott smith - love the "you're mad they tried to kill me" line the rhythm on "smoke through the night" was epic i don't know who sammie is, i thought this was gonna be about a sandwich

This is song feels so I want to say peaceful, but I do t know if the lyrics match up with that,

This is a great song thaynk.you for sharing it

For I
A second I did too!

This is song feels so I want to say peaceful, but I do t know if the lyrics match up with that, :lol: This is a great song thaynk.you for sharing it [quote=orangedrink] i don't know who sammie is, i thought this was gonna be about a sandwich[/quote] For I A second I did too! :lol:

This is so good. The vocal harmonies add such magic. It's really hard for me to pick out single things I like about this cause it's all so fucking good.
This is really excellent. Favorited.

This is so good. The vocal harmonies add such magic. It's really hard for me to pick out single things I like about this cause it's all so fucking good. This is really excellent. Favorited.

This is so nice! Eyes closed on my couch, nodding along... Everything sounds so calming and warm. Great job!

This is so nice! Eyes closed on my couch, nodding along... Everything sounds so calming and warm. Great job!

They stole his bike chain but not his bike?  That's just cruel! lol This is such a feel good, sing-along song with soothing vocal harmonies. I just want to keep playing it.... it's that good.

They stole his bike chain but not his bike? That's just cruel! lol This is such a feel good, sing-along song with soothing vocal harmonies. I just want to keep playing it.... it's that good. :)

I don't really know what the song means or who Sammie is, but the music itself is extremely warm and inviting and the chorus is for sure an earworm.

I don't really know what the song means or who Sammie is, but the music itself is extremely warm and inviting and the chorus is for sure an earworm.

The unsettling lyrics juxtaposed with the laidback music remind me of "lounge metal", in particular a group called Hellsongs and their cover of Metallica's "Blackened".

I read "Sammie" as "Uncle Sam", i.e. "the USA". The lyrics talk about how the media sells you fear, and religion plays into that, with evangelical policies literally planning for the end times.

Or maybe Sammie was just an über-fan of Depeche Mode.

The unsettling lyrics juxtaposed with the laidback music remind me of "lounge metal", in particular a group called Hellsongs and their cover of Metallica's "Blackened". I read "Sammie" as "Uncle Sam", i.e. "the USA". The lyrics talk about how the media sells you fear, and religion plays into that, with evangelical policies literally planning for the end times. Or maybe Sammie was just an über-fan of Depeche Mode.

Man, perfect tracks week after week. Keep 'em coming!

Man, perfect tracks week after week. Keep 'em coming! :)

Really nice song. I love the vocals and harmony parts with the meandering lyrics. Really catchy. Awesome songwriting on display!

Really nice song. I love the vocals and harmony parts with the meandering lyrics. Really catchy. Awesome songwriting on display!

Wow. Instrumentation is great, but the vocals steal the show here. Fantastic layering and harmonies. Transported to late-60s/early 70s folk pop like Simon and Garfunkel or Seals and Crofts. Agree that it’s at the same time comforting and somewhat unsettling. This is a track that requires repeated listening to dig into it. Absolutely beautifully done, this is top tier stuff.

Wow. Instrumentation is great, but the vocals steal the show here. Fantastic layering and harmonies. Transported to late-60s/early 70s folk pop like Simon and Garfunkel or Seals and Crofts. Agree that it’s at the same time comforting and somewhat unsettling. This is a track that requires repeated listening to dig into it. Absolutely beautifully done, this is top tier stuff.

Fantastic work! The percussion fits in so perfectly, really all the parts feel like they're right where they belong. The choruses are stellar too, the vocals and bass give such an uplifting feeling. Dang the rhythm change at 2:47 and the turnaround to repeat the last line just nailed the ending too. Kudos to the legal team on this one.

Fantastic work! The percussion fits in so perfectly, really all the parts feel like they're right where they belong. The choruses are stellar too, the vocals and bass give such an uplifting feeling. Dang the rhythm change at 2:47 and the turnaround to repeat the last line just nailed the ending too. Kudos to the legal team on this one.

love the lyrics and vocals, great subtle percussive elements and the bass really adds to it. Another killer tune

love the lyrics and vocals, great subtle percussive elements and the bass really adds to it. Another killer tune

Wow, another I can’t believe im hearing on weekly beats. The intro hook that builds just pulls in so nicely to get us in. Lead guitar at bridge works really well. Reminded of The Shins a little.
Great job 👏

Wow, another I can’t believe im hearing on weekly beats. The intro hook that builds just pulls in so nicely to get us in. Lead guitar at bridge works really well. Reminded of The Shins a little. Great job 👏

It's a great song! It heals my heart.

It's a great song! It heals my heart.

A really lovely track and the vocal harmonies are very sweet and natural.  Nice one!

A really lovely track and the vocal harmonies are very sweet and natural. Nice one!

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wow, it did my heart good to read your generous comments and know that y'all were listening this week. i'll respond more specifically below, but just a quick note up here as a few of you asked about Sammie.

*this song isn't an ode to a sandwich, but i did have an incredible sandwich last week that probably deserves a song. you can see a pic & read the description here on IG if interested. it was SO GOOD.
anyway!

thank you! i hope someday we can make that happen irl   

thanks, mzunguko! i got some really good input on some panning and reverb tweaks that really helped to bring the mix into focus. 

i had a feeling you would appreciate the Casio parts! i almost farmed out those harmonies, but i was having too much fun singing them so i just had to do it m'self. thank you 

it made me so happy to hear that you were singing along! thanks again for the close listens.

thanks, Buddy! you have definitely inspired me to try new things in the visual realm 
and yeah, sometimes Sammie would give me this crooked smile and lean in and say "you're mad they killed me, aren't ya?"
like... how do i respond to that! haha
and yeah, at fist i was like... is it too played out to go to the triplet on that last "smoke through the night" but i just HAD TO. 

thanks, b bro! peaceful but kind of unsettling is a recurrent theme for me this year haha

well dang, that rules!

i love that, thank you

awesome! and yeah, Sammie could be spacey and liked to collect things so he would often lose track of things like bike chains or padlocks or electronic parts. unfortunately he would also assume that when something was missing that it was because someone stole it. there was a particular neighbor that Sammie was always suspecting. 

thanks for listening, i'm glad you found it warm and inviting!

oh wow, i had never heard that 'Blackened' cover - that rules. thank you!
and i like that USA read, def fits the theme of some of my other songs from this year.
not sure if Sammie ever heard Depeche Mode or not, but i bet he would have like 'Personal Jesus'

aw shucks, thank you! can't stop won't stop

i appreciate that, Peter!

goodness, thank you! Simon & Garfunkel were particularly formative for me and taught me a lot about how vocal harmonies can elevate a song. it means a lot to hear your kind feedback.

thanks, Cursory! it was fun recording the percussion. the main beat was me tapping on the edge of my computer keyboard and desk. i was trying to figure out what to use and then had a moment where i was like "hey that sounds cool, just put a mic up and go with it." i did add a couple tracks of this wooden bongo box thing that my buddy built for me. oh and finger snaps, gotta have the snaps.

thanks so much! the bass part was really fun to work out.

ayyyy thank you! i love early Shins so i'm sure that comes out from time to time.

that is so nice to hear, KAMI Lime. 

thank you, rdomain!

big Sammie vibes on that gif! 

wow, it did my heart good to read your generous comments and know that y'all were listening this week. i'll respond more specifically below, but just a quick note up here as a few of you asked about Sammie. *this song isn't an ode to a sandwich, but i did have an incredible sandwich last week that probably deserves a song. you can see a pic & read the description [url=https://www.instagram.com/p/C-tGPRmyL_b/]here on IG[/url] if interested. it was SO GOOD. anyway! [spoiler=about Sammie] i've served in different roles for the past 22+ years with an org that provides supports for people with disabilities. Sammie was one of our clients back when i was in a 'direct support professional' role, but he also became a friend (that line between client/friend has often been blurry to me, although i've done my best to have appropriate boundaries). when i first started working at Sammie's apartment, i was excited to find out that he also played guitar and was very into music. he had an incredible voice — imagine a bell-like twang, somewhere in the Hank Williams Sr. / Stonewall Jackson world — and had a great feel for country shuffles on his beat-up acoustic. he also liked to point out things he could do on guitar that i couldn't do :P Sammie introduced me to several old country gems, but also had a few song that he wrote that in my opinion stood up to a lot of the classics. a couple times early on i offered to help Sammie record his music, but unfortunately that idea trigged some deep paranoia (those ideas inspired a lot of the lyrics for my Sammie song) so i let it go and just enjoyed the times that i got to hear and even play and sing along with Sammie. it is a shame that those songs aren't documented though. Sammie passed on in 2019, but i'm really grateful for the times we had together and everything he taught me. it was nice to reminisce a bit while working on this song and i hope it is a fitting tribute. [/spoiler] [quote=neon liminal]I feel like we must save Sammie at all costs but also fear him and his nefarious but largely harmless plans for the end of the world. This was just delightful. Sitting in the circle with you around the fire, smoking the night away, singin' and clappin' and snappin' and knee-slappin'. <3[/quote] thank you! i hope someday we can make that happen irl <3 [quote=mzunguko]Definite campfire song. Not sure what t”feedback was provide, but it worked so I thank them as well![/quote] thanks, mzunguko! i got some really good input on some panning and reverb tweaks that really helped to bring the mix into focus. [quote=Tone Matrix]love the harmonies <3 ooh and the casio yais! Another soothing progression! :) [/quote] i had a feeling you would appreciate the Casio parts! i almost farmed out those harmonies, but i was having too much fun singing them so i just had to do it m'self. thank you :) [quote=Napear]I have said this all week, but this song is just sooo good. And, crazy catchy... that chorus, is like IMPOSSIBLE to not sing along with. So well done. [/quote] it made me so happy to hear that you were singing along! thanks again for the close listens. [quote=orangedrink]holy crap everything about this is awesome awesome song, awesome drawing! very elliott smith - love the "you're mad they tried to kill me" line the rhythm on "smoke through the night" was epic[/quote] thanks, Buddy! you have definitely inspired me to try new things in the visual realm <3 and yeah, sometimes Sammie would give me this crooked smile and lean in and say "you're mad they killed me, aren't ya?" like... how do i respond to that! haha and yeah, at fist i was like... is it too played out to go to the triplet on that last "smoke through the night" but i just HAD TO. :D [quote=b bro]This is song feels so I want to say peaceful, but I do t know if the lyrics match up with that, :lol: This is a great song thaynk.you for sharing it [/quote] thanks, b bro! peaceful but kind of unsettling is a recurrent theme for me this year haha [quote=BarristerPlong]This is so good. The vocal harmonies add such magic. It's really hard for me to pick out single things I like about this cause it's all so fucking good. This is really excellent. Favorited.[/quote] well dang, that rules! <3 [quote=LeBernd]This is so nice! Eyes closed on my couch, nodding along... Everything sounds so calming and warm. Great job![/quote] i love that, thank you [quote=Bunjigram]They stole his bike chain but not his bike? That's just cruel! lol This is such a feel good, sing-along song with soothing vocal harmonies. I just want to keep playing it.... it's that good. :) [/quote] awesome! and yeah, Sammie could be spacey and liked to collect things so he would often lose track of things like bike chains or padlocks or electronic parts. unfortunately he would also assume that when something was missing that it was because someone stole it. there was a particular neighbor that Sammie was always suspecting. :D [quote=Cosmic Cairns]I don't really know what the song means or who Sammie is, but the music itself is extremely warm and inviting and the chorus is for sure an earworm.[/quote] thanks for listening, i'm glad you found it warm and inviting! [quote=rplktr]The unsettling lyrics juxtaposed with the laidback music remind me of "lounge metal", in particular a group called Hellsongs and their cover of Metallica's "Blackened". I read "Sammie" as "Uncle Sam", i.e. "the USA". The lyrics talk about how the media sells you fear, and religion plays into that, with evangelical policies literally planning for the end times. Or maybe Sammie was just an über-fan of Depeche Mode.[/quote] oh wow, i had never heard that 'Blackened' cover - that rules. thank you! and i like that USA read, def fits the theme of some of my other songs from this year. not sure if Sammie ever heard Depeche Mode or not, but i bet he would have like 'Personal Jesus' [quote=Sodabelly]Man, perfect tracks week after week. Keep 'em coming! :)[/quote] aw shucks, thank you! can't stop won't stop [quote=PeterM]Really nice song. I love the vocals and harmony parts with the meandering lyrics. Really catchy. Awesome songwriting on display![/quote] i appreciate that, Peter! [quote=Paisleyfrog]Wow. Instrumentation is great, but the vocals steal the show here. Fantastic layering and harmonies. Transported to late-60s/early 70s folk pop like Simon and Garfunkel or Seals and Crofts. Agree that it’s at the same time comforting and somewhat unsettling. This is a track that requires repeated listening to dig into it. Absolutely beautifully done, this is top tier stuff. [/quote] goodness, thank you! Simon & Garfunkel were particularly formative for me and taught me a lot about how vocal harmonies can elevate a song. it means a lot to hear your kind feedback. [quote=Cursory]Fantastic work! The percussion fits in so perfectly, really all the parts feel like they're right where they belong. The choruses are stellar too, the vocals and bass give such an uplifting feeling. Dang the rhythm change at 2:47 and the turnaround to repeat the last line just nailed the ending too. Kudos to the legal team on this one. [/quote] thanks, Cursory! it was fun recording the percussion. the main beat was me tapping on the edge of my computer keyboard and desk. i was trying to figure out what to use and then had a moment where i was like "hey that sounds cool, just put a mic up and go with it." i did add a couple tracks of this wooden bongo box thing that my buddy built for me. oh and finger snaps, gotta have the snaps. [quote=SQF]love the lyrics and vocals, great subtle percussive elements and the bass really adds to it. Another killer tune[/quote] thanks so much! the bass part was really fun to work out. [quote=myfirstpunksong]Wow, another I can’t believe im hearing on weekly beats. The intro hook that builds just pulls in so nicely to get us in. Lead guitar at bridge works really well. Reminded of The Shins a little. Great job 👏 [/quote] ayyyy thank you! i love early Shins so i'm sure that comes out from time to time. [quote=KAMI Lime]It's a great song! It heals my heart.[/quote] that is so nice to hear, KAMI Lime. <3 [quote=rdomain]A really lovely track and the vocal harmonies are very sweet and natural. Nice one![/quote] thank you, rdomain! [quote=emily] <3[/quote] big Sammie vibes on that gif! <3

The rapman is such a cute addition. Sammie sounds like and interesting person. It was nice hearing about this person even though we will never meet.

Great song. It's a stand out for me this week.

The rapman is such a cute addition. Sammie sounds like and interesting person. It was nice hearing about this person even though we will never meet. Great song. It's a stand out for me this week.

Excellent, really love this one. Such a lovely melody. This is another one that reminds me a little of the clientele. Hope Sammie is ok!

Excellent, really love this one. Such a lovely melody. This is another one that reminds me a little of the clientele. Hope Sammie is ok!

really appreciate that, ENC

hey, thank you!
Sammie is no longer with us, but it was really nice reminiscing a bit about our time together and sharing some of that with all of you. 

[quote=ENC_]The rapman is such a cute addition. Sammie sounds like and interesting person. It was nice hearing about this person even though we will never meet. Great song. It's a stand out for me this week.[/quote] really appreciate that, ENC [quote=ddmm64]Excellent, really love this one. Such a lovely melody. This is another one that reminds me a little of the clientele. Hope Sammie is ok![/quote] hey, thank you! Sammie is no longer with us, but it was really nice reminiscing a bit about our time together and sharing some of that with all of you. <3

Ah lovely, a sweet tribute to Sammie. Pour one for the heads. Love the vocals especially, just warm fuzzies. Smoking through the night sining songs of devotion indeed! Thank you for the song!

Ah lovely, a sweet tribute to Sammie. Pour one for the heads. Love the vocals especially, just warm fuzzies. Smoking through the night sining songs of devotion indeed! Thank you for the song!