Rarely has there been much music written about the Smokey Mountains. This song is to the Smokey Mountains as John Denver’s popular song about the Rocky Mountains. The song’s appeal is not only to the beauty and grandeur of the Smokey Mountains, but also to its spirit, culture and love found there in the simplest ways (“I’m comin’ home to those mountains high and the simple life…”) It has a common theme of abandoned love, missing it, and returning to it. Its appeal is to a wide audience, especially one that people can identify worldwide with the love of home, family and beautiful surroundings and suffering their homesick loss. The song’s lyrics are a collection of words that form an idea or theme of what the song is about: A person who left his familiar surroundings and comfort to blaze the trails, “chasin’ my rainbow fantasy”, only to find himself homesick and the pot of gold at the end of rainbow is back home with his friends, family and lover in the majesty of the Smokey Mountains. HOOK The hook is to the Smokey Mountains’ majesty which is repetitive throughout the song, both musically and lyrically. LYRICS The lyrics convey the heart of Tennessee’s beauty and culture. They tell the story of a run-a-way person on the trail of his rainbow fantasy who, realizing what he has left behind, is forever bound to return to it. He can’t wait to get back to the Smokey Mountains’ majesty and what it holds for him: pine trees tall, valleys low, Dogwood blossoms, a good woman, animal friend and the simple life. . .things many people who don’t have, would trade for!
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i recently learned this country song of carrie underwood and i find it very beautiful but i guess it still needs more polishing...thank you for listening!!
JC High Eagle and Rene Sims are to preform at a private party for Drew Edmundson the Attorney General of Oklahoma. Drew is running for Govenor of Oklahoma. JC and Rene will be preforming music from both of thier cds as well as some great old jazz standards and some duets.
The results for the European Country Music Awards are in....
Category 4: Female Vocalist of the Year -
1. PAM TILLIS
2. Liz Talley
3 .Taylor Swift
4. Danni Leigh
5. Allison Janisse
Category 6. Indie Album of the Year -
1. DOLLY PARTON - BACKWOODS BARBIE
2. Allison Janisse - Journey
3. Darlene Olson - Stay Up and Fight
4. Arthur Kleiner - Ticket to Nashville
5. TJ Stuart - Rosin on the bow
I was so honored to be nominated with some really great people. A big congratulations goes out to all nominees!
I want to thank everyone for your continued support and keep watching for some news that will be coming soon.
~~~~~Thank you all again~~~~~
TRADITIONAL, COUNTRY BALLAD
MADE FAMOUS BY GENE WATSON
The title, "All My Life" describes the song’s idea. The song is about love abandoned, a doomed lover reaching for the meaning of being once in love and now alone, longing for an answer, growing older with the memories of love but fearing not finding it again. It has a common theme appealing to a wide audience, and one that people can identify with worldwide with wanting love and losing love.
The song aspires for love but growing older, fears not finding it again. The song longs for a better life, for something better, but with a sad feeling of loss and not finding it again. A soul searches for an account of how things were, but won’t be again.
The hooks, "All my life," and "…a broken heart with only memories left to hold," linger in the listener’s mind, often causing the person to want to hear the song again. Packed with emotion, this hook is very singable, easy to remember and ends the chorus.
The song’s lyrics are a collection of words that form an idea or theme of what the song is about. The verse, both musically and lyrically "set up" what the song is about. The lyrics in the chorus drive home the heart of the meaning of the song.
The melody presents the listener with something truly pleasing—a certain degree of familiarity using the technique of repetition. The emotional effect of the music is by the use of chords from major to minor chord in the chorus which projects a mournful sound. It also reflects a certain sadness about the prospects of the singer.
The motive (a series of notes placed at different intervals to create a useful place to begin the song) expresses the meaning of the song. The interest is not in the intervals, but in the rhythm and the harmonies as they operate on a single note. The melody notes and phrasing builds toward something—a music climax in the chorus!
The chorus gives the listener a sense of closure, creating a dynamic feeling of frustration returning to the tonic melody, find a satisfying climax of being resolved to a possible hopeless, loveless future.
Also, the chorus begins louder than the verses and is gradually softer to emphasize the feeling and despair of the E-minor chord. Using an E-minor chord in the chorus after the lyrics, "…and now I’m only growing old," emphasizes the sorrowful, somber mood.
The song’s cadence (ending), from the listener’s point of view, is about feelings of anticipation and completion with a different feeling switching from anticipation of love returning to love lost and maybe never returning.