The birth of "Holding On"

So this weekend as well as having another successful gig with the "Special K's" The amazing acoustic duo I'm in, I also properly recorded one of my previous SAD songs with a band and everything.

Here's some history...

"Holding On" was written at 10am on a Saturday morning just before band rehearsal, the previous days I had been sick with manflu and had written some pretty dark songs. I wanted to write something a little more hopeful and uplifting. At that time it was always just another one of my SAD songs. I really wanted to sing a duet with Kylena, so I emailed her a draft recording and suggested the parts she could sing.

At rehearsal I was nervous and didn't really want to ask the guys to jam it with me but Kylena pushed it, "I never thanked her for that, so thanks Ky". We jammed it about 4 times, each time it got better. I didn't direct anyone, it was just a group of musicians, feeling the song and putting something of themselves into it. It was time to move on, and I was pretty happy how it turned out. The Birth of a song is an amazing thing to be a part of!

What came out of that little session was something I never imagined, this little ditty I wrote in an hour grew into something completely different. After posting the jam recording as the song of that day I received some really nice feedback, I can't say much other to say I received an email from someone with quite a reputation in the industry suggesting I record it properly and send it to him.

So that's what we did, with Nigel Bourn driving the desk at his fantastic room with a really high ceiling (we call it the chapel). We bashed it out. It took a lot longer to record then I thought it would, and we could have spent a lot longer on it. The end product is going to be amazing.

We are still trying to get the final mix the best we can then you can hear the end result. I'm really happy and proud of that song, yes it's a song I wrote but it became more than that the minute others contributed, and I couldn't have asked for better musicians to give part of themselves.

I honestly think "Holding On", when played acoustic just by myself sounds a lot like any of my other songs. It really starts me thinking what they would sound like with a full band behind them, but that's for another day if at all.

Stay tuned, I'll post it as soon as it's cooked all the way through.

K