Hello! Below are songs that make a collection I am calling, "Time Enough". This is a project that I recorded between the years 2000 and 2005. After 2005 it just sat there, because although I had, maybe, half a clue as to how to record the songs I had no clue what to do next. After a few frustrating attempts (and a really fun hard drive crash!) I just kind of let it go....
Until recently... I don't know what came over me but a couple of months ago I just decided that this thing needs to get done. So I started remixing all of the songs. Then I did something really smart...I asked a professional to help me. Yeah! Smart people! I needed someone to master the record, which means the final touches of e.q., compression, limiting....all that esoteric stuff that really makes something sound like you actually want to hear it. I worked with Eric Corson, who is the bass player in the super awesome band, The Long Winters. He gave the record what it needed. Whew! I am very thankful for his work this record. Thank you, Eric!
So all the songs are listed below. Check them out! If you like one you can download it by clicking on the little, downward-pointing arrow on the right hand side of each track. If you want to share the song you can click on the icon for options. Would love to hear from you all and I want you to know that I am thankful to be able to finally share these songs. Bye!
What's That Noise by Corey Passons
Bethanie and I left for a long travel in India just a few days before the WTO in Seattle. But in the weeks leading up to it we participated in art shows, gatherings and concerts that were focused on raising awareness. I learned so much in that period of time and also became convinced that people really can change. This song name is a question but it is really the story of someone in the process of changing their mind.
To Make a Day by Corey Passons
Another reaction to time. The song is trying to talk about how lucky it is to find yourself in one of those afternoons that never seem to end, wandering around with your friends.
Time Enough by Corey Passons
It feels appropriate to name this collection after this song. I was hoping to evoke imagery in this song that would relax the listener, something that would comfort. It seems crazy to look around now and think that things felt just as busy back then. That's what I was getting at.
Sound of the Sea by Corey Passons
One of my father's patients was a deeply troubled man who was an artist. He gave my father an original drawing that I now have hanging in my house. The song is about that drawing. Bethanie plays the didgeridoo on this track.
So Blue by Corey Passons
Josh Stiger plays the mandolin on this song. I think it is a song about a song. My best memory of this one is playing it with Josh on the beach in La Push around a campfire to this couple who were completely fall-down drunk and going on and on about how they thought it was so hilarious that there were towns named "Tillicum" and "Stilicum". Wow. That was a night.
Pieces by Corey Passons
This is another of those "found object/word" songs...and that's how I named it. Oh well, I still like it! I forgot about this one as well until I was mixing down last month and there it was, hiding, forgotten.
Pickin' Up Pride by Corey Passons
This song is actually kind of personal. It is about my decision to stop drinking alcohol, which I did in November of 2000. Bethanie is playing the tambourine. We were a band for a little while called "The Blue Twos" and did a few shows around town back then.
Paper's Expired by Corey Passons
There a couple of songs in this collection that are really just piles of words and phrases that I thought sounded good together at the time. This is one of those! I used a cheap, baritone guitar on this one, which I still have and never play and will not give away, at least for now.
Out of the Hat by Corey Passons
The main reason I wrote this song is because I used to have an old, beat up acoustic guitar that a guy named "Big John" gave to me. The action was so bad on it I could only use it as a slide guitar. He kept trying to tell me it was a really nice guitar that his mother bought in Japan at the end of the second world war. I used to just nod at this story. I mean, who gives away nice guitars? And you should have seen that thing!
My Soul's a Plane by Corey Passons
I think I understand why I wrote this song...because artists often start out for themselves and then suddenly find themselves standing in front of other people wondering what they are doing there. I would say that is what is going on for me in this one. Not that I am standing in front of you, but these thoughts crossed my mind the one and only time I performed this song.
Moonrise by Corey Passons
I wish I could point to a memory or a place that triggered this song. I can't. Sometimes you write something because you want to know what it feels like or because of how you yourself feel. I would say that is what this song is mostly about. One of the highlights of my musical life was singing this song in the EMP during Folklife with Ross McGilvray and Peter Kingham singing the harmonies with me as I played. That was a great take. Thanks guys!
Mile of Earth by Corey Passons
I wrote this song in Denver while on tour. I had spent the day busking downtown and then met back up with the band to drive to our show. We accidentally parked in front of this super swanky club called, "The Club of the Moon". So maybe this song is me thinking about being in that club or how you might end up in there. But then again we never lingered, we moved on, because it's hard to get away from Denver and seems to feel like forever when you have to go East.
Jungle with Lions by Corey Passons
Hard for me to pin this one down...I have performed it many ways over the years. I don't know why I wrote it. The chords are based off a much earlier song of mine that I have long since forgotten. I changed the time signature of that older song, wrote new lyrics and there I was. The song is about dreaming, and that's how old songs are, too...they are like dreams. I have heard other artists talk about songs like this; how they move through and that it's hard to know where they go or why.
Everybody's New by Corey Passons
One night I slept in a tent on some property that overlooked Lake Superior up on Highway 61 north of Duluth. It dumped rain all night long. I read Tolstoy's "Master and Man" cover to cover that night and then dried out the next day in an empty cafeteria. Does that matter? No. But sometimes it can get lonely out there. I wrote this as my tent dried.
Coming Back to Me by Corey Passons
I honestly don't remember either writing or recording this song at all. When I was mixing down the record last month I saw an untitled track listed so I opened it and it was this song. I have no idea what I was trying to say nor can I play the guitar parts. Kind of an ironic title now that I think about it!
Fists Into Flowers by Corey Passons
Remember, I started this project in 2000 and when 9/11 happened this song just kind of happened. I remember being amazed at all of the art that was created because of that event. It was kind of incredible to see the different responses and consider them. It was hopeful, actually. Andrew Kingham is the percussionist and the other vocalist on the recording. At the time we were a little, duo band called, Mr. Mink. We did a handful of shows, but this is our only recording.
Christopher Park by Corey Passons
I wrote this song in New York when I was on tour with my band, Spanish for 100. Christopher Park is an actual park that is in the West Village on W. 4th and Christopher Street. I remember just sitting there, looking around and being so tired... we had driven from Indiana the night before and arrived at 6 a.m. only to throw bags on the bed of the hotel and head out the door into the city. Ross and I walked from Houston St. in the Lower East Side all the way to the Guggenheim! That's a long way! Actually, I don't even remember why I was in Christopher Park. But there I was, alone. So I wrote a love song.
