News From The Week That Was
It’s Heeeeere!!!! The first track from Songs About Crying, “Shivers and Shakes”! See below for more details, or visit it on the releases page here.
A History of ….
Songs About Crying, Track 1: Shivers and Shakes
Shivers and Shakes is one of the older tracks, one of the ones that predates The Cube. Scarfo was just getting back to piano, and saw an opportunity. Writing in B flat and D minor has always seemed to him to have a special sound – something about D minor just seems a little sadder than the other minor keys. This isn’t something that had been previously explored as this is not a key that is particularly conducive to guitar. It isn’t impossible, it’s just uncomfortable with a lot of bar chords and we can be lazy from time to time.
Lyrically, at this point in Fighting Whiskey history, Scarfo and Boyne were toying with different approaches to writing, and this is one that fell into a particular category. The idea was to have one of the two tell the other a story or what they wanted the feeling to be about, and the other would write the lyrics based on that. In this case, Scarfo presented an idea to Boyne and Boyne did the writing. The reverse of this was done on “Touching Stoves” from Dandelions, wherein Scarfo wrote lyrics to something Boyne expressed.
We wanted this to be the first song released from Songs About Crying in that it is pretty thematically indicative of the rest of the record to come. Sound, tone, different keys, slower – this song has a little bit of all of that.
Three Things I’ve Learned This Week
- No one in Fighting Whiskey is as excited about “Fun Drunks” as Euro is.
- A child who won’t clean his room will gladly clean a softball or home plate without being asked.
- The best beer isn’t just free beer – it’s surprise free beer.