FAWM : nancycunning (@nancycunning)

nancycunning

@nancycunning

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Joined

2022

Happy March Album Listening Month. If you have a song (or how about three songs, it's so hard to pick one) of yours you'd like me to listen to let me know.
FAWM this year was amazing for me. Gluttony did turn out to be the right theme for me. I was so happy to get to be a Full-time FAWMer. My highlight was so many incredible collaborations. Here they are:

Random collaborations, Same Name, Harmony Challenge
A Little Bit More of the Same @cheslain
My Pontiac's Been Wrecked @mikegtz
That Old CD @sheslin
Hide and Seek @johnrupe
All Those Days of Dancing @hummingbear @nancyrost
Growing Like a Garden @fearlessflight2014 ADD

Skirmish-based collaborations
The Only Way to Hang On @paul_pedersen
It's All Okay @paul_pedersen @tuneslayer @bobjestes
Down Again all Day @coolparadiso @cheslain
Again, Again, Again @oaksnprairie
60 Songs in I'm Addicted to FAWM @tuneslayer

Locked Outside The Garden / Wenn es wieder Mondnacht wird @chroes
Let the Sun Shine Down on Me and weisses Leinen @mahtowin
The Corner of Can Do and Crazy @nancyrost
Alive in the Beauty of Light @skibum007
Six More Weeks of Chemo @downburst
Songwriter Heaven @billwhite51
Castle Dragondreams Jam @dragondreams and the rest of the castle
Something from Nothing @oaksnprairie
Tooth and Nail @loveonamixtape
Like God Does @jeff9
Uncle Morton Played Piano in the Prison Band @carleybaer
I Can't Change You @jacobeverettwallace and @odetocollaboration
Indecision @mishykatz
Grandpa Lambard's Famous Dr Pepper Cherry Pie @tuneslayer
Good Enough Gospel @abudabard12514
Oak Ridge Boys and Indigo Girls @odetocollaboration @jlampson
While We Can We Will @nateger

@kcflowers recorded new versions of five songs we've written: Picking Peaches, The Give-away Pile, All the Husbands I Need and Leave People Alone

@amandaroseriley and I teamed up for five songs: Not Gonna Be Your Supergirl , I Was in Too Deep, You Could Do a Whole Lot Worse , The Things That We Remember, I Will Slay My Dragons

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@jsini 4d

Nancy, thank you so much for the time and attention you put into listening to our songs. Wow! You are a prolific writer! An interesting point on the song you made a comment on of ours - Wilderness- it actually isn't life on the river as in being on a boat. Here, in Alaska, there are many rivers that are really, really remote. The expression, living on the river, actually means on the side of the river in a remote cabin. (At least it does for me and I go back here a few generations :) ). But, when I read your comment about thinking it was a boat, I drew an inspiring image of how isolated a boat can be and how similar that is to the remoteness of living in the "Bush". (Another term for being 'out there') Thanks again! - Suzanne

@charliecheney 1w

You're quite the detective, even finding quick proof-of-concept demos hidden in comments on soundboards.

As for your comments on melody, there used to be a challenge called Auto Pseudo Mondo here on FAWM where they posted a lyric with chords written above the words, and your challenge was to record your version. So you were basically "inventing" melody and arrangement. Over 50 people posted songs and no two were alike. In fact, to my ears, no two were even remotely similar. Songwriting is an amazing puzzle of melded inspiration to me.

Based on your number of songs it appears you're like me and can write a lyric in 5 or 10 minutes. Excited to hear your recordings some day. It's inside you, you hear it. Might as well let it out, right? ❤️

@gb9 2w

Thank you for your kind comments and appreciation of 'Intoxicated' and 'Begin Again'. I don't have much musical knowledge so I can't even imagine how my songs could sound.... I don't even have a melody going through my head when I'm writing songs.
With regards to 'Begin Again' the refrain that could repeat across the song would be 'Could we/ should we begin again?'

Thanks again for your thoughts on my work and congrats on an incredible FAWM!

@trebled 2w

Thanks for listening and commenting so kindly on “An Alcoholic’s Tale”, Nancy! And for planting the wonderful idea in my head that I was actually collaborating with my (much) younger self - I really hadn’t thought of it like that! I wish now that I could go back in time and play the song to him - I wonder what he’d think of it? I wonder what he’d think of me? Probably best not knowing! Thanks so much again! :-)

@corinnelucy 3w

I see why your entire soundboard is filled with dozens, maybe hundreds, of people thanking you for your comments. Yours made me feel like I'd done what I set out to do, on each song you commented on. I've been laughing with delight while @woolford was crying (I guess we are different 😆) but both of us now have the biggest smiles on our faces (and it's not *that* hard). I don't know if you write lyrics all year round, but if you'd ever like to email me some and collab, let me know - I'll be here through March. Thank you so much for your insight and soul.

@danielsenie 3w

Thanks so much for your feedback on a bunch of my songs. My grandfather's shoe store was a destination for senators' wives coming up from DC. It was The French Bootery. He sold French, women's shoes. Nothing else. At the going out of business sale, there were no size 9 shoes.

Toshi was a force of nature. Wife of a banjo player named Pete. If it weren't for her, you'd have never heard of him. I really wanted the song to be present tense until the end, as her memory lives on with so many of us.

I've written a few times about NYC. I moved away once I finished college, a long time ago. But especially after 9/11, I'm never at ease there. I have a song that talks about that more directly that I'd written a few years back. I should record a demo of that one.

Again thanks for the comments. Much appreciated.

@massnerdy 3w

Hi! So stoked to see how many songs and collaborations you got up to during FAWM! You mentioned listening to other's songs in your profile, and I still have one zong that I rather like and wanted some feedback on, as I was only able to record a minimal demo for. I want to do a fully fleshed version later this year. Could I get some feedback or a critique on "Bufflehead Pt. 2"? Thanks! https://write.fawm.org/songs/23533

@paulharrison 3w

Thanks for your thoughtful comments on "Looking for a Place." I do have a few songs where I opt to have multiple examples of people experiencing (or demonstrating) something in common to show more universality. I agree, it is a good question to ponder in writing...go deep with one character or have different example. I've gone both ways...depends at least in part on the overall point, I suppose. Thanks for listening closely and commenting accordingly. Congrats on your massive song list, btw...rather incredible!

@billwhite51 3w

i wanted to add a note about the sister in back to the stars. we had our baby in vitro and there were two embryos. one of them didnt make it . from the time she could talk, our daughter talked a lot about her sister, who didnt make make it, but went back to the stars. and she looked forward to being with her again when the time came for her to return to the stars. now at the age of seven, she doesnt remember anything about her sister.

@complexissimple 3w

I actually was trying not to get sucked into FAWM this year, because I know I'm in a really bad place health-wise and need to have higher priorities. But it goes "oh, I'll just look at the forums" and then, "I'll just do this challenge real quick", and so on.... And now I have 7 songs posted or basically ready to post and at least 12 more half-written and I'm skipping meals to work on them. It's a genuine addiction.

@muz 4w

@WobbieWobbit did a marvellous job of coaching me through the vocals On Our Palestinian Flag. I enjoyed the process - it was fun! I'm really glad she persuaded me to have a go.

I've also uploaded a couple of other lyrical songs on Palestine that I wrote some time ago. I thought you might want to collaborate on one or both of them. They're both written for the female voice. Rachel's song in particular as this is written in the voice of a young American girl - Rachel Corrie - who went to Palestine to defend the rights of the Palestinians. The other is a companion piece but written (mostly) in the voice of a young Palestinian nurse. They're both pretty long though and since I wrote them well before FAWM, they're not going to count towards it.

@doglatin 4w

Thanks for your remarks on my "You Know Who" song. I really did not (consciously at least) write it in response to that thread. I got the musical idea first, then the first couple of lines about running into someone from the past. The former girlfriend thing just kind of occurred to me as I was finishing the first verse, so I ran with it. Then when I was done, I thought, oh crap, another one of those songs that will probably never see the light of day!

@muz 4w

Hi there Nancy. Thanks for your comment on my song! My brother gets the credit for the first line. @DreamScuba did the music for Our Palestinian Flag and he did a great job, it sounds fantastic. @WobbieWobbit was going to do the vocals but this is before she realised that there was a mention of religion in the lyrics and she's an athiest! She's persuaded me to give them a go, but I'm no singer. But I've promised to give it a try out tommorow. How do you fancy doing the vocals? We've still got a week or so to do it. It would be lovely to have you on board!

@haloquin 4w

And thank you for your kind words on my walking song and "Silenced or Seen" - I want to add harmony vocals I think, but that'll require some work on both!

Love that the staff made you think of fantasy. I spend a lot of time with druids so a staff is genuinely a tool for walking nowadays, in my mind 😅 so weird to realise that's not true for most people, and very cool that it adds a layer.

And yes, even the hard stories can be friends for sure, guides with tough love, or mirrors to say we're not alone in the dark times. Little Mermaid has variously been both, and an inspiration to dream too, for me. Do you have a story like that?

@skibum007 5w

Nancy, Thanks for those Alive in the Beauty of Light" Lyrics. The sound file is now live! I put it to music that feels right for the subject matter (at least as I understand it - i.e. its not exactly "Sin ners in The Hands of An Angry God" Music! the way some might understand the role of J.Edwards in Colonial history). I feel like the music is a little on the pedestrian side due to my limited skills on the guitar. Feel free to look for different musical interpretations

@grenzgaengerin 5w

Thank you very much for your many comments. That means a lot to me. I learned the overtones with the help of a YouTube video. You find your meditative, deep tone, shape your mouth so that a resonating body is created in it. Then you line up the consonants a-e-i-o-u and later vary them with ö ä and ü. With tongue, lip and jaw movements, the resonances in the mouth and throat are combined in such a way that individual overtones sound so loud that they are perceived as individual tones. It's unfamiliar at first, but it's worth trying out ;)

@treble 6w

Hi Nancy, thank you so much for your helpful comments on "Addicted to Aerobics." I love your suggestions on how to develop a chorus and am following up on them. You asked if I'd be interested in participating in the Same Name Collaboration. I definitely am but should let you know that while I can write lyrics fairly quickly, it usually takes me over a month to come up with music. Please let me know if you're interested and thanks again!

@paul_pedersen 6w

I'm okay if @tuneslayer works on "It's All Okay" too. I did that with a UK lyricist who wanted to enter a brand new birthday song in the UK Songwriter competition and gave it to a second composer. It was interesting because both songs that started with the same words were so different. It's nice to see how other music folk respond to the same words.

In the case of this song, I was attracted to two things - your words, of course, as well as the challenge to make music that's based on four bar multiples fit with three line verses.

Wish me luck!

@roel_van_veldt 7w

Hi Nancy, thank you for working hard on the lyrics of “The Breakers and the Broken”. You certainly added a remarkable amount of great hooks!I am now going to make a new version that has all the best parts from both songs. Of course, when it's complete, I would appreciate your opinion as well! I have already added you as an official collaborator. Furthermore, once registered with PRO (Performance Rights Organization), you will receive due credit too.
§ Roel

@mckillop 7w

Hello Nancy, thanks for the note!
Good to be back here. I read your blurb for this year - good goals!
Happy Birthday to your mom!
Greg won't be on board this FAWM year, so it's just me.
It will be challenging for me this year as I'm working 28 hours per week until the end of Feb, but I'm gonna give it a shot.
I'm hoping to write a bunch of songs that will comprise a "concept album" about me working at a "returns center" for Maine's biggest online retailer, who will remain nameless, but it is probably pretty obvious who it is.
Looking forward to seeing/hearing your work this year.
All the best,
Bob McKillop

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