A New Journey?
Just a few days ago I remembered a song that I had tried to write so many years ago. Before I met my wife, Judy, I would spend most of my Fridays and/or Saturdays at one of the local Blues bars in Dallas, TX. My favorite was "The Hole in the Wall" down on the north end of Harry Hines in the shadow of a freeway. (Interstate 635, to be precise.) I loved the Blues. I would drink and dance to the Blues with any woman who cared to get on the floor. You could say I lived for the Blues. Then one day I met Judy, and shortly thereafter "The Hole In the Wall" closed forever. It was like that chapter of my life ended. It occurred to me that something more than a bar closing had changed. I no longer cared to find myself in a Blues bar every weekend any more. I had what I needed at home. Where had all my blues gone? I had never been a song writer let alone a musician. But those words sounded like a song to me. A song from my own heart. I kept the words in a corner of my mind for all these years. Recently I started using ChatGPT to research whatever was on my mind at any given time. And I remembered those lyrics. I Worked with ChatGPT to forge a song from that memory and working with and Suno.com for 4 days, I created this tune. I wrote 2 versions: one is a pure Slow Blues in C and another after the style of a ballad. I shared my work with friends on Facebook and YouTube. They loved it. I loved it. I shared the thought that all of them that this was a one-off that took me 20 years to write. So, it seemed unlikely that I would ever write another. But a family member said “sure you can. Just write from our heart.” My lovely wife Judy knowing me so well, also said "yes, of course you can." So here I am, waiting to see if I can write one more song that is good enough for me to share. There are a lot of AI generated songs popping up now. Most of those are not that good. But with a little help from AI, I hope I can do this again. If so, I will share it here. Stay tuned.
Jaz
4/3/20261 min read
For most of my life, I loved Blues music. The rock artists of the 70’s pulled heavily from the old Bluesmen. The works of Led Zeppelin led me to dig back into men like Howlin Wolf, Robert Johnson and many more. (All of them actually). Then of course Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughn led music back to the roots of Blues.
Living in Dallas, there many Blues bands and a few clubs. My favorite was the Hole in the Wall on the north end of Harry Hines in Dallas. You could find me there just about every Friday and/or Saturday form the late 90’s to when it closed around 2006.
20 years or so ago, after meeting my lovely wife, Judy I had realized something in me had changed. I had an idea for a song. A title “Where Have All My Blues Gone”. I wrote a few lines but never finished. I wrote those lines on a sheet of paper and tucked it into my wallet, thinking one day I would share it with one of the local bands that I had followed for years. That never happened and I lost track of that paper, changing wallets over the years and when I stopped going to Blues bars except for a few special date nights and birthdays. Judy and I still love music and are always looking for music festivals around our birthdays.
