My friend Alan Vawdrey composed this little masterpiece recently. The song is called Edward Blake and it's a great jig for a dark fairytale, something along the lines of Tim Burton, methinks. I wrote a song last month about a ghost unlike most that follows a similar theme, but for the uke. We must have been tapping into a similar macabre vein of music independently of each other. Our songs are even in the same key. I'm really into this creepy style of songwriting.
Here's a picture of Edward Blake with Eleanor Rigby.
I'm really digging Edward Blake. I used to sit behind Al in band class for years while he hooed on his clarinet and I tooted my trumpet. Great to hear the clarinet back in action in this song.
It's time to revisit a few pictures from the forest, rendered in vibrant color, to set the mood for this song.
Scroll down, turn off the other music, then click here to enjoy the Dryad's Promise, written and performed by Aaron Ballard, one of my good friends since adolescence.
The song has this great Rush/Led Zeppelin classic rock feel and the imagery is fantastic. He mentioned that the picture I took of the mushroom below helped inspire the feeling for this song. Recently, my childhood friends have been writing and sharing music online and I've been eating it up. Great to hear them playing music again!
