New song for Maura and Joe
My friend Maura approached Ryan, my bandmate in (and the frontman of) The Franklin Kite and me before her recent wedding to ask if we’d help her flesh out and perform a song with her at her wedding reception as a gift to her husband and our other great friend, Joe. Ryan and I were, of course, stoked. We only got one full-group writing/rehearsal session in before the reception, but I think it came together really well. Maura wrote the melody and played violin, Ryan the lyrics and guitar, and I did some arrangement and the usual laptop jockeying.
After the wedding a couple of friends asked about the tune and I thought it would be fun to put together a quick recording of it to commemorate the event, which was a truly amazing weekend with great friends new and old. With Ryan moving to Durham, England three weeks after the wedding and Maura with her typically hectic travel schedule, I managed to sit them both down, individually, for about 45 minutes in my apartment to get their tracks laid down. Hope you enjoy listening to the tune at least some small fraction of the amount we enjoyed writing it.
So here’s the Mp3… right click to download it. It’s even got cover art if you pull it into iTunes. I know. So profesh.