| After All | |
| This was written by Lisa Purdy, a singer I recently collaborated with on a remix, and she's given me permission to post this. Here's an excerpt from her e-mail to me giving me permission to post this cover: "I really can't express to you how meaningful it is to me that you did this and that you take me seriously as a singer or a songwriter. I had close to crippling health problems through all of my 20's and into my 30's and, just at the time I regained my health, I discovered GarageBand and it was as though someone suddenly gave me back everything that had been taken away. I had so many things I was "supposed" to have been that I never ended up being. Honestly, Jim, I had given up dreaming about being anything but a person that got up and got through one day and then the next and the next until I one day died. Music changed all that. It's not that I have any big dreams of becoming a professional musician, but I wake up every day now with buckets of ideas and stacks of things I'm working on and a growing pile of songs that are a marker of how much time has passed since I was sick. It feels as though I'm moving closer to something rather than just marking time... ...The fact that you took the time to work on not one, but two of my songs, just means a lot to me, makes me feel that maybe I'm not just goofing around, because I KNOW you're not. ... Do you want to post this at Macjams (or anywhere else, actually)? I'd be so happy if you did." So here I play a couple things that I don't know how to play really; the real drums played with brushes, the bow on the viola where I play the one note I could play in tune, for the whole song, along with the typical rudimentary piano and rudimentary banjo that I usually manage. At some point I figure I got to a plateau where I'm not going to get any better on those instruments, but as long as I don't get too ambitious and I just try to play a few right notes, I might end up with something musical. The original version can be found here: http://www.macjams.com/song/10741 | |