Barry Seymour Posted Monday at 05:14 AM Share Posted Monday at 05:14 AM (edited) Hi everyone, I'm back again. Got a new one, "Native Soil," about a world traveler returning home to Cumberland Gap, KY. Song is largely written, although I'm open to lyric suggestions. Looking for your thoughts on the recording itself. Thanks in advance! EDIT: Changed the solo, mastered the track. Edited Tuesday at 06:04 AM by Barry Seymour 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Seymour Posted Monday at 05:17 AM Author Share Posted Monday at 05:17 AM (edited) Returning home after years away, from overseas I made my way I walked the world then came back home, an old guitar and a book of poems Roads are quiet, light is dim, the town is empty, look within Up the rocks to the Pinnacle, the fog’s is something mythical Fifty-Eight, and Twenty-Five E, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee (At the) Old Mill Inn, the rivers roil, my roots are in this native soil I have walked ten thousand years, I’m waiting for the smoke to clear I wash my feet, the river cold, beneath the trees lay down my load Friends and lovers, some are here, others gone, my near and dear The cemetery with Mawmaw Lou, can’t bring myself to visit you Middlesboro and Harrowgate, sometimes crooked, sometimes straight (But) some things here are still unspoiled, Cumberland, my native soil I came back after years away, why I did I couldn’t say What I seek still isn’t clear, maybe she’ll help me find it here I’m hiking through the Gap again, (like) three hundred thousand other men The land is green, the air is clear, I’m not the first to pass through here Look inside, I’m still alone, it does no good that I’ve come home I don’t quite know what I’m lookin’ for, just wanna find what I found before Fifty-Eight, and Twenty-Five E, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee The day I leave this mortal coil, bury me in my native soil Edited Wednesday at 02:18 PM by Barry Seymour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark skinner Posted Tuesday at 01:30 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 01:30 PM Great writing Barry ! I love the way your lyrics smoothly tell a story and don't get sidetracked always keeping everything focused. As far as lyric suggestions .. I think last verse line "just wanna find what I Found before " could be changed to "had" before. I also think "bury me in my native soil" could be brought back in again during the fade out. Fantastic job. Loved it .. mark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Seymour Posted Tuesday at 04:48 PM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 04:48 PM 3 hours ago, mark skinner said: Great writing Barry ! I love the way your lyrics smoothly tell a story and don't get sidetracked always keeping everything focused. As far as lyric suggestions .. I think last verse line "just wanna find what I Found before " could be changed to "had" before. I also think "bury me in my native soil" could be brought back in again during the fade out. Fantastic job. Loved it .. mark Thanks. I went back and forth between 'found' and 'had,' settled on found. The idea is not to find the same thing, but something like it. I actually spent a crap ton of time writing, rewriting, revising. More, I think, than any other song of mine. I do like the idea of repeating that line during the fade out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Walsh Posted Tuesday at 06:38 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 06:38 PM Love the lyrics, the mix was really clean and I love the way you captured that acoustic guitar. Also dug the string solo, I guess it's been the Beatles since I've heard one of those lol. More of these please! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wookiee Posted Wednesday at 12:14 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 12:14 PM Love the mix Barry, very clear and crisp. Good instrument definition. Excellent song writing too. What did you use for the violin? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Seymour Posted Wednesday at 01:13 PM Author Share Posted Wednesday at 01:13 PM 58 minutes ago, Wookiee said: Love the mix Barry, very clear and crisp. Good instrument definition. Excellent song writing too. What did you use for the violin? Free plugin called BBC orchestra. I used it both for the brass and the strings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Seymour Posted Wednesday at 06:01 PM Author Share Posted Wednesday at 06:01 PM 5 hours ago, Wookiee said: Love the mix Barry, very clear and crisp. Good instrument definition. Excellent song writing too. What did you use for the violin? Do you think the strings sound too fakey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Seymour Posted Wednesday at 06:02 PM Author Share Posted Wednesday at 06:02 PM 23 hours ago, Kevin Walsh said: Love the lyrics, the mix was really clean and I love the way you captured that acoustic guitar. Also dug the string solo, I guess it's been the Beatles since I've heard one of those lol. More of these please! Thanks. I'll ask you the same question I asked Wookiee - do the strings sound real enough to you? I'm worried they don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wookiee Posted Wednesday at 09:32 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 09:32 PM 3 hours ago, Barry Seymour said: Do you think the strings sound too fakey? A little but creating good solo strings from string libraries is tricky. If you intend to do more there are a couple of really good, fairly priced libraries. Has the library got any key switches they can real add to the authenticity of such libraries. But don't worry this works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Seymour Posted Wednesday at 10:31 PM Author Share Posted Wednesday at 10:31 PM 58 minutes ago, Wookiee said: A little but creating good solo strings from string libraries is tricky. If you intend to do more there are a couple of really good, fairly priced libraries. Has the library got any key switches they can real add to the authenticity of such libraries. But don't worry this works. I rather doubt it. It is BBC Orchestra, but it's free. I suspect there's only so much I can do with this. I may try an acoustic guitar solo again. Still thinking. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Walsh Posted yesterday at 12:14 AM Share Posted yesterday at 12:14 AM I'm not the right guy to comment on the quality of string libraries. I did a song with the SI Strings virtual instrument and thought it sounded super. 😃 That said, an acoustic solo would sound great too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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