David McCreath

A few weeks back, some folks at a web site where I hang out proposed that the members of the site cover an entire album. After a little discussion, the decision was made to do [Flood](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_(They_Might_Be_Giants_album)) by [They Might Be Giants](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Might_Be_Giants). I haven’t recorded anything in a while, so I impulsively jumped on board and said I’d record track 10, “Someone Keeps Moving My Chair”. Here it is.

As in the past, this was recorded in GarageBand and [Gord Fynes](http://gordasm.org/) provided drums. I’m pretty happy with how this turned out.
I know at least one other track has been posted publicly.
Birdhouse in Your Soul, by D. Blackburn
I don’t know if the rest will be or not, but if they are, I’ll post links here.
(Here’s the [Last.fm page for the original version](http://www.last.fm/music/They+Might+Be+Giants/_/Someone+Keeps+Moving+My+Chair). They only have a 30 second clip, but there’s also a YouTube video embedded.)

It’s been a while since I recorded anything, so I decided to do a quick version of one of my favorite Texas songs, “Dallas”. Written by Jimmie Dale Gilmore and recorded by the Flatlanders and Joe Ely, and probably some others as well. I think Jimmie Dale is probably one of the best songwriters in country music.

Yesterday at the Mule Monday morning check-in, Erika mentioned that [Anil](http://dashes.com/anil/) had set his IM status to “Let’s send Scooter to Gitmo” at some point over the weekend and how she thought that would make a good hardcore song. Okay. Here it is.

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[Download a copy](http://dmccreath.org/music/lets_send_scooter_to_gitmo.mp3)!

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A friend recently left a job he’d been unhappy with and began (what sounds like to me) a new chapter of his life. Nothing too dramatic, just a shucking of the old and enjoying the new. But it inspired me to write a song. So here it is.

A thousand thanks to [Gord Fynes](http://gordasm.org/) for providing me with a drum track played by a real drummer (albeit on a keyboard). The loops that come with GarageBand are good, but nothing compares to a real drummer. Hopefully Gord and I will work on more stuff together in the future.