"Let The Wind Chase You"

If you've never experienced the 365 Days of Country Music, you've already let life pass you by and unfortunately this blog may be your last bit of hope for experiencing music.  That blog changed my life.  Thanks to the brilliance of Meesa Hayes, who has the most exquisite musical taste in all of life, I have been exposed to the best of the best.  So much so that I was inspired to start this blog.  Although I have been a lifelong Trisha Yearwood fan, somehow, some way, I have never heard this song until I found her amazing blog.  This song has made me want to be a songwriter that much more.  The brilliance in this song makes my heart race, it's just that good.

I think the hardest decision someone will ever make is the war between holding on and letting go.  That moment of realization that you just can't try any more has to be the biggest disappointment but also the biggest relief; and that is exactly what I feel when I hear this song.  I feel like I'm an emotional mess after this song and that's why I love it.  Like blowing a dandelion into the wind, she just lets him go in this song.  Ahh close your eyes and listen to your heart break.
 
FM Radio:
Singer: Trisha Yearwood/Keith Urban
Songwriters: Karyn Rochelle, Sally Barris
Song: "Let The Wind Chase You"

Like a wildwood flower
Doesn’t have to reach for the sun
And when it needs a drop of water
It doesn’t have to ask the rain to come

I don’t wanna work for your love
I don’t wanna try to be
Something that you’re looking for
You’re never gonna find in me

So let the wind chase you
I can’t do it anymore
Let the road run after you
Like I always did before
Let the stars catch your eye
‘Cause I’ve tried and tried and tried
And I won’t do
So let the wind chase you
No one says a diamond ain’t precious
Just because it hasn’t yet been found
And no one blames the moon for not shining
Just because it’s hidden by a cloud

I don’t wanna blame myself
Thinking that I’m not enough
And wonder what’s wrong with me
Because I couldn’t win your love

So let the wind chase you
I can’t do it anymore
Let the road run after you
Like I always did before
Let the stars catch your eye
‘Cause I’ve tried and tried and tried
And I won’t do
So let the wind chase you

I don’t wanna work for your love
I don’t wanna try to be
Something that you’re looking for
You’re never gonna find in me

So let the wind chase you
I can’t do it anymore
Let the road run after you
Like I always did before
Let the stars catch your eye
‘Cause I’ve tried and tried and tried
And I won’t do
So let the wind chase you, mmhmm
Let the wind (let the wind)
Chase you

"Georgia Rain"

On October 8, 2011, my life forever changed.  We went to the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville and saw and heard the most incredible show.  That night's lineup was Karyn Rochelle (aka my new BFF), Tommy Karlas, Lisa Carver (whom I love) and Erin Enderlin.  Let me just say that for me, it was that indescribable feeling of fulfillment, yet desire.  I can't even begin to describe the chills I had.  The type that you feel in your bones.  That feeling that you know you're experiencing something much bigger than yourself.  If I can create that feeling for someone else the way they all did that night, my life is complete.  This was the last song of the night, my body wasn't even in my skin at this point.  Watch the video I took of Karyn singing it.  Of course, her back was to me...but I can't even begin to complain.

FM Radio:
Singer: Trisha Yearwood/Karyn Rochelle
Songwriters: Karyn Rochelle/Ed Hill
Song: "Georgia Rain"

Barefoot in the bed of your truck,
On a blanket lookin' up.
Half a moon peekin' down at us,
From underneath the clouds.
Teenage kids sneakin' out again...
I heard the thunder rollin' in.
We were fallin' the moment when,
It all came pourin' down. 

The Georgia rain on the Jasper county clay,
Couldn't wash away what I felt for you that day.
Just you an' me down an ol' dirt road...
Nothin' in our way except for the Georgia rain.

The cotton fields remember when,
Flash of lightnin' drove us in.
We were soaked down to the skin,
By the time we climbed inside.
An' I don't remember what was poundin' more...
The heart in my chest or the hood of that Ford.
As the sky fell in an' the storm clouds poured,
Worlds away outside

The Georgia rain on the Jasper county clay,
Couldn't wash away all the love we made.
Just you an' me down that ole dirt road...
No one saw a thing except for the Georgia rain.

Screen door flappin' in the wind...
Same ole house I grew up in.
I can't believe I'm back again,
After all these years away.
You fixed your Daddy's house up nice...
I saw it yesterday when I drove by.
Looks like you've made yourself a real good life...
What else can I say?

The Georgia rain on the Jasper county clay,
Couldn't wash away the way I loved you to this day.
The old dirt road's paved over now,
Nothin' here's the same except for the Georgia rain.

Couldn't wash away    

"She Wouldn't Be Gone"

On Friday, October 7th, 2011, I watched amazingness happen in front of my eyes and in my ears.  I witnessed an unnoticed voice put on a show that was better than any entertainer I have seen.  I already blogged about him and another song he wrote, "If You'd Called Yesterday."  (Look back through the blogs and back through your memory.)  I dragged my family to this place in Nashville called "Douglas Corner" to see the incredibly talented Cory Batten.  Well, the bouncer kind of scared everyone but they got over it.  (He had at least a 3 ft beard and was well over 6 ft tall)  Anyways, I walked in and turned around to see another one of my favorite songwriters, Karyn Rochelle.  Needless to say, I felt like I died and had gone to heaven.  This place oozed with amazingness.  Subsequently, I met Karyn Rochelle and Cory Batten and told them how they've changed my life, no big deal, but they were the most down to earth, amazing people ever.  Made us respect them that much more.  Well, little did anyone that night know that the world would totally stop when Cory Batten sang.  There's people who can sing and then there are those who can sang.  Well, Cory Batten can SANG!  Like the phone book, dictionary, vowel sounds, anything...and you will stop everything you're doing and listen.  This guy needs to be taking over the country charts right now.  Anyways, this song may have re-modernized Blake Shelton's career but this introduced Mr. Cory Batten to the world.

What makes this song so different is that it's not everything someone did to win someone back, it's everything they didn't do.  We all can sit down and tell the world what we did, but I think it's the hardest to admit what we didn't do, where we went wrong, and that in the end, we are the guilty one.  Well this is like straight down a crooked road.   This is music.

FM Radio:
Singer: Blake Shelton/Cory Batten
Songwriters: Cory Batten, Jennifer Adan
Song: "She Wouldn't Be Gone"

Red roadside wild flower if I'd only picked you
Took you home set you on the counter
Oh, at least a time or two
Maybe she'd thought it through

Yellow sunset slowly dippin' down in the rear view
Oh, how she'd love to sit and watch you
I could have done that a whole lot more
If I hadn't been so stubborn
Been so selfish
Thought about her more
Thought about me less
Joked and maked her laugh
Held her when she cried
A little more that, maybe I

Wouldn't be drivin' like hell
Flyin' like crazy down the highway
Callin' everyone we know
Stoppin' any place she might be
Goin' any place she might go
Beatin' on the dash
Screamin' out her name at the windshield
Tears soakin' up my face
If I had loved her this much all along
Maybe, maybe, yeah maybe
She wouldn't be gone
She wouldn't be gone
She warned me it was comin'
Said if I didn't change
She was leavin'
I just didn't believe
She would ever really walk out
God, I believe her now
Called her mamma
Cried like a baby to her best friend
If they've seen her, they ain't sayin'
They ain't sayin
Now, I'm cursing like a fool
Prayin' it ain't too late
All I wanna do is fix my mistakes
Find her, beg her for one more try
Until then damn it I"ll

Wouldn't be drivin' like hell
Flyin' like crazy down the highway
Callin' everyone we know
Stoppin' any place she might be
Goin' any place she might go
Beatin' on the dash
Screamin' out her name at the windshield
Tears soakin' up my face
If I had loved her this much all along
Maybe, maybe, yeah maybe
She wouldn't be gone
She wouldn't be gone

I wouldn't be beatin' on the dash
Screamin' out her name at the windshield
Tears soakin' up my face
If I had loved her this much all along
Maybe, maybe, yeah maybe
She wouldn't be gone

Red roadside wild flower if I'd only picked you
Took you home set you on the counter
Oh, at least a time or two
Maybe she'd thought it through

Here's the video from that night: