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Chance Moore:  Gussow as country lyricist/harpist
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kudzurunner
4917 posts
Sep 01, 2014
10:11 AM
Today is the official release date for A COUNTRY BOY LIKE ME, the debut album from a young singer/songwriter from Okolona, Mississippi named Chance Moore. The tenth and final song on the album, entitled "Rattle On," is an original composition of mine--my first country song, in truth--and also features a bit of harmonica playing. Actually, we produced (here at the Tone Room in Oxford) more like a rollicking rockabilly thing, in line with the song's title and theme. The rest of the album is more straight-ahead country. Please check out the preview:

Rattle On

Chance is a slim, quiet, friendly guy, about 24 years old. When he opens his mouth, he's got one of those old-soul deep-country voices--sort of like Scotty McCreery. The moment I heard my lyrics coming out of his mouth, as opposed to MY mouth, I knew that there was no danger of me ever becoming a country singer.

There's virtually no video of Moore, except for one primitive home recording from three years ago. He's definitely a star in the making, and it was my honor to contribute a track to his debut album. There will be a music video by and by. In the meantime, this will have to do:

Last Edited by kudzurunner on Sep 01, 2014 10:14 AM
Goldbrick
660 posts
Sep 01, 2014
1:11 PM
Good stuff
Voice reminds me a little of Josh Turner


JInx
873 posts
Sep 01, 2014
1:23 PM
maybe i just don't get down south enough, but as soon as i hear that particular country vocal affect, i head the other way.
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kudzurunner
4918 posts
Sep 02, 2014
4:38 AM
Here are the lyrics. It's kind of hard to explain the chords in the bridge, but it's an unusual bridge. I should stress again that I didn't intend to write a country song. I just had this idea for a song. But it turned out to be a country song. It didn't have a bridge when I played it for Chance, but he liked it, so I said, "I'll take it home and write a bridge" and I worked one up that night:

“Rattle On”
Words and music by Adam Gussow


You’ve just lost your job, and your heart is breakin’ down
You’ve just lost your baby and you’re feeling blue
Your..mojo’s gone and the fat lady just sang her song
There’s only one thing that you-oo-oo can do

CHORUS:
Rattle on, my brother….keep on truckin’ along
Rattle on little sister too….
Rattle on, everybody…don’t worry about a thing
‘Cause one of these days…the winner’s gonna be you

You try to be a good man, but you keep on messin’ up
You try to get it right but you get it wrong
You’ve…lost your touch, but you’re too damn mean to give it up
There’s only one thing that you-oo-oo can do

CHORUS:
Rattle on, my brother….keep on truckin’ along
Rattle on little sister too….
Rattle on, everybody…don’t worry about a thing
‘Cause one of these days…the winner’s gonna be you

BRIDGE:
IV……………………………………….
You can say I’m just a…..doggone fool
I…………………………………………
Well I don’t give a damn if you do
……III7………………..VI7
The good lord knows….he messed up and it shows
II7 #V7…V7………#V7..V7………II...bIII..
And the devil doesn’t want my kind of….heart-wrecked….ship-wrecked….wheels-
III..IV..bV……….V7#9…….
falling-off kind of loo-oo-zer.

HARMONICA SOLO

Seems like the bad guy….always gets the girl
Seems like the good guy just gets screwed
It…ain’t no fair, but if you wanna keep from crackin’ up
There’s only one thing that you-oo-oo can do

CHORUS:
Rattle on, my brother….keep on truckin’ along
Rattle on little sister too….
Rattle on, everybody…don’t worry about a thing
‘Cause one of these days…the winner’s gonna be you


OUTRO [repeat “one of these day, the winner’s gonna be you” 3x??]

It has mojo, romantic desertion, a broken heart, a lost job, self-loathing, anger, the devil, and dogged persistence despite all obstacles. That's a lot of blues themes for one country song!

Last Edited by kudzurunner on Sep 02, 2014 4:49 AM
DoubleJ
71 posts
Sep 02, 2014
8:21 PM
Nice job on the tune Adam.

Songwriting is an accomplishment notwithstanding the genre.

Country music is cousin of blues. "Key to the Highway" has country changes. Music writers used refer to the idiom "white man's blues."

Some of the late George Jones stuff is so mournful, soulful and honest it moves listeners exactly like a good blues or R & B vocal.

Most classic country tunes have the blues themes you utilized. The current commercial country scene adds a lot of sexual references (imagery in the videos) and hip hop phrasing to the mix.


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