Challenge #11 Blues - Teams Write

[Lisa Gates]

_{I got my lyrcist. working. busy. can't play with all your fun comments this week. I love this group!}

[john]

Wassat? Now you're saying my head is a baloon?

 

I don't burp with a rubbery aftertaste, so I don't think so!

On a bright note that tells us you haven't been smuggling heroin or cocaine too. I begin to suspect you've been getting strip searched for pure enjoyment now!

[Lisa Gates]

Hey Gang

 

After the runaway popularity (*ahem*) and success (*coughs*) of last week's writing challenge, your publisher has decided to treat you to an interesting brief.

 

An ancient blues man, "Wiley Ole Blues", is planning a comeback, however he never wrote his own material, he relied upon a TEAM of writers to write his hits.

 

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

 

1. You need to divide into teams. The minimum size of a team is 2! The maximum size of a team is 4.

 

2. Each team must include at least one lyricist that is NOT CURRENTLY AN ACTIVE MEMBER of our group (ie they can be a member but not active, or not currently a member at all).

 

3. Each writer must draft their fair share of the song. If there are 2 of you that is 50%. If there are 3 that is 33 %, 4 of you that is 25%.

 

4. You should use 12 bar blues or one of it's variants. (check our 12 bar blues song form article to get an idea). You can use a hybrid scheme, such as 12 bar blues with AB or ABC song forms.

 

5. Wiley remembers the good ole days and wants the lyrics to be about a temptress who will stop at nothing to get her man.

 

All lyrics should be completed and the completed version posted by this Friday. Wiley needs only one song, so, I will pick one set of lyrics to highlight to community members next Friday.

 

This post will self destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1....

DANG! did this really destruct? I can't find the article for the 12 bar blues either!!! John, are you awake? Can you help a poor American girl out?

;-)

[Kel]

On a bright note that tells us you haven't been smuggling heroin or cocaine too. I begin to suspect you've been getting strip searched for pure enjoyment now!

Considering I work in border enforcement, I take that to be a good thing!

 

Have found some H in my time though!

 

Yes, it was handed in. And yes, ALL of it!

 

Oh, and I wear the rubber gloves around here!

 

K

Edited August 28, 2013 by Kel

[john]

DANG! did this really destruct? I can't find the article for the 12 bar blues either!!! John, are you awake? Can you help a poor American girl out?

;-)

Lucky I don't sleep lol

http://songwriting.songstuff.com/article/aab-song-form/

[john]

Considering I work in border enforcement, I take that to be a good thing!

 

Have found some H in my time though!

 

Yes, it was handed in. And yes, ALL of it!

 

Oh, and I wear the rubber gloves around here!

 

K

Wearing rubber gloves to GET strip searched is just kinky lol

[goldylocks]

Considering I work in border enforcement, I take that to be a good thing!

 

Have found some H in my time though!

 

Yes, it was handed in. And yes, ALL of it!

 

Oh, and I wear the rubber gloves around here!

 

K

Now, were getting to the bottom of this, or should I say the top. That's why your head's in a cloud and your feet are in the air eh? You're watching the border up on high.Lol 

 

Goldy.

Edited August 28, 2013 by goldylocks

[Lisa Gates]

Lucky I don't sleep lol

http://songwriting.songstuff.com/article/aab-song-form/

I knew you didn't...and thank you sooooo much!

[Lisa Gates]

How do we always end up on a tangent? although I love a bit of fun.

 

Agreed Lisa great group, some fun but also some learning.

 

Les

Les, I blame Kel for the tangents! He always has some witty comment! Yeah, it's all his fault! HA HA HA!

Just wait until the Songwriting course is over (and maybe I can find a new job too) then I'll have time to add to the tangents!

I enjoy this challenge so much! It really ignites the brain and keeps me focussed on what I love to do: Write!

Edited August 28, 2013 by lguzda

[Kel]

I hope everybody has noticed there has only been ONE, single, solitary, lonely submission this week. Oh, and who was it that rose to the challenge... um err....

[Lisa Gates]

We're almost ready. Patience is a virtue and will be well rewarded!

I'm working with Member Scotsman89. BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID!

Mwwwaaaaahhhhhh ha ha ha ha

[Kel]

SLAP! Sorry, was that a cackle? I thought you were choking!

[Lisa Gates]

SLAP! Sorry, was that a cackle? I thought you were choking!

cafff caffff eh humm, I'm better now. thank you

[Lisa Gates]

Team UKSA will be posting after 12noon today (EDT) Standby for lift off!

[Lisa Gates]

“New Orleans”  by John Morrison and Lisa M. Guzda (Scotsman89 and LGuzda)

 

I got six and he ten days

Our friendship formed in that place

Busted in New Orleans

 

I got six and he ten days

Good friendship formed in that place

Busted in New Orleans

 

(Harp solo here)

 

(ad lib: Now, now, now, now)

I’m working hard to get out

Learning how to live without

All I need, New Orleans

 

Working so hard to get out

Learning how to live without

All I need, New Orleans

 

(Harp or wailing guitar solo here)

 

Ain’t no way! Got no luck!

She’s tied me here, I am stuck

Sweet thing called New Orleans

 

Ain’t no way! Got no luck!

She’s tied me here, I am stuck

Sweet thing called New Orleans

 

Outro:

Busted in New Orleans

All I need, New Orleans

Sweet thing called New Orleans,

She’s got me now, New Orleans

[Rudi]

Prisoner of Love Blues

V1

Baby, you lock me down with them brown sultry eyes

You're the key chainin' me with your lies

I'm a prisoner when you make love to me

A burning desire, I can't break free

 

 

V2

Baby, I plead guilty, show me some mercy now

Could give you all of me, if you’d only allow

Oh, you know how to make me misbehave

You sentence me to bein' a love slave

 

 

-Bridge-

Oh, baby baby you hold my heart so hard n' tough

I can't get free from your prison of love 

You done stole my heart, yes n’ you did the crime,

And it’s me that’s on trial, and doing the time

 

V3

Listen now to me baby, have mercy on your man

I want you to listen up baby, giving you all I can

I aint got no right of appeal to you 

I'll just keep singing the Prisoner of Love Blues

 

By The Trans Global Triad

Vagdavercustis . Goldylocks . Rudi

[Kel]

I love the "team names!"

 

This is such a cool group.

 

Well done everyone, and thanks for such a cool challenge, John.

 

Kel

[goldylocks]

Great challenge! I enjoyed writing with Vagda and Rudi, two exceptionally talented writers.

 

Also everyone else who rose up to the challenge, your songs are awesome!.

 

 

Goldy

Edited August 30, 2013 by goldylocks

[john]

Hi Gang

 

Each of the entries had things that would have made it a suitable choice. Only one song really stuck to the whole 12 bar tradition out of the entries, which was interesting (to me at least), while we had what looks like a 16-bar blues in an overall AABA song form  and a 16-bar blues / AB song form hyrbrid.

 

Thematically and emotionally I felt "Prisoner of Love Blues" hit the mark quite well, and that is the song I have chosen as the winning entry,

 

Congratulations to the Trans Global Triad!

 

Cheers

 

John

[Kel]

Well done Triad. I'll happily buy you a beer with the earnings from the Southern Blues hit!

Kel