JASON KODIE
1st meeting:
Jason has an incredibly open and generous nature. He was extremely open to the whole process, fearless about the whole mad-scientist aspect of my proposal, and the only one of the 5 singer-song writers I’ve met so far to be willing to meet all the challenges.
I’d heard him play Laredo at Accent Lounge about 2 years ago, and it was a song that I immediately latched on to. Jason got a glint of excitement in his eye when he proposed I learn “Whipped” (or his preferred title: Pussy Whipped) because of the fun it would be for him to hear a woman sing it. We also went through some lyrics I had previously written (some half baked, some finished) and I offered him “J’étouffais” so that he could go off and compose something for it on his own. It’s a little nerve wracking since I have a certain emotional attachment to this one since it is a break-up song and I would be inclined to make it into a ballade, but the idea here is for me to get out of my comfort zone and take some risks. When Kodie mentioned that the lyrics had a circus quality…I knew this was exactly in keeping with the spirit of this project. We also decided to use “I Knew the Bar Tender/Anything I Wanteds” as a co-write because of the subject matter. It got Jason’s imagination going when he started thinking about the bar tender’s reactions and how this could become a duet. The process for this particular song will be to go back and forth with the lyrics and then jam out the music when the story is finished. Follow up:
Only a few days after our first meeting, Jason has already started writing something with this project in mind... The bad news is that I have to wait for him to return from Cuba to see it!
Second Meeting:
Alright, time goes by WAY too quickly. By the time our schedules finally coincided again it had been several months. We tackled some lyrics I had written about the aftermath of closing down a bar and Jason decided he would write from the bar tender's perspective. So that's in the works. I also showed him a new set of lyrics I had written and he decided to take a stab at putting it to music. I wanted something dark and heavy on the dirty-gritty-Tom-Waits side of things. With this project though, you never know what you're going to get. Here's his first (rough) stab at it. It came out a lot lighter and almost circus-like than I expected. I forgot to ask him if he's ever been in a car accident... Then again, maybe the light approach makes it more gruesome?
Lyrics:
A deer, a fox and a Porcupine
She screams « they’re all mine I’m famished, I’m famished Je mangerai à ma faim I’ve got a hunger that’s hard to satisfy But I’m certainly going to try» Black with tar Plays tricks on the eye Solid water stretching into sky Straight lines and curves Make slaves of us all In a dazed trance we follow If only at a half paced crawl A deer, a fox and a Porcupine She screams « they’re all mine I’m famished, I’m famished Je mangerai à ma faim I’ve got a hunger that’s hard to satisfy But I’m certainly going to try» And when the dare devils floor it It’s adrenaline hour The gravel flies, the dust, and the grit A game of chicken where she’ll never quit A torso, a leg, and an eye that was fine She screams « they’re all mine I’m famished, I’m famished Je mangerai à ma faim I’ve got a hunger that’s hard to satisfy But I’m certainly going to try» |
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