She laughs for a minute about the shape I’m in Wine bottles scattered like last nights clothes She crosses a bridge and then sets it on fire “Drunken Poet’s Dream” (Hayes Carll version)
For more info, visit Hayes Carll, who lives in Austin, just released the new album KMAG YOYO and will play at South By Southwest in 2011, including a headlining show at the Billy Reid & K-Swiss Shindig, co-presented by American Songwriter. Ray Wylie Hubbard will co-host a series of small songwriting workshops in the Texas Hill Country in March and April. They’re songs that maybe I wouldn’t have written otherwise.” Hubbard, who wrote ‘70s classics like Jerry Jeff Walker’s “Up Against The Wall, Redneck Mother,” says working with younger songwriters like Carll in a loose, collaborative style has been productive. “It’s like the song will tell you when it’s the right line so it doesn’t matter who wrote it.” Whatever I wanted to say, that’s what I was gonna say,” says Hubbard. We had the first verse and the chorus and then kinda after that it took on a separate identity of whoever was writing at that point.
Hubbard jumps into the chorus after the first verse and replaces Carll’s third chorus line (“She brings me roses and a place to lean”) with “And then I’m gonna rhyme that with gasoline.” “Wine bottles” become “whisky bottles” and “dominoes” become “Oreos” under Hubbard’s direction.
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The pair used the software tool Masterwriter and worked on the revisions over e-mail, which Hubbard jokes he preferred to “being in the same room with Hayes.” “We had the melody and kind of changed it up a little bit too,” says Hubbard. While the writing process began as a common effort, the song took on a new life in each songwriter’s hand and the two versions of “Drunken Poet’s Dream” have structural and idiosyncratic differences as well as complete lines and verses that differ.
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