Doug Davis - Acoustic Guitars

from Round 15, Week 5 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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This is not a good song.

I will say, though, that at least there was a semi-coherent idea behind this one, which is more than I can say for every other "song" I've contributed this round.

So, here's what happened, if you're into this sort of thing:

1) I listened to the latest Solange album this week. Lots of very important identity material - my tribe, my people. Brought me back to that familiar and difficult terrain. Who ARE my people?
2) Well, if you judge by your Facebook friends - which is, in theory, a terrible thing to do - "my people" are composed of some 1400 middle-aged, middle-class white guys with acoustic guitars.
3) And many of them are complaining. Complaining about clubs not paying them enough for their unique talents (all 1400 of them). Complaining about Spotify not paying them enough for their unique white-guy-with-acoustic-guitar song stylings.
4) Also, I was listening to a lot of Randy Newman this week.

If you think it's you I'm making fun of in this song, you're probably right. But keep in mind, that this song is mostly just about me.

Lastly, the irony that I'm making fun of bland mediocrity through the vehicle of a bland, mediocre song is not lost on me.

There's a much more cutting and insightful song to be written on this topic, and I hope to write it some day.

lyrics

All my middle-age middle-class white guys
Burning it down with acoustic guitars
Raise your Townes Van Zandt and your Isbell box sets, wave 'em in the air like a hipster's prayer, like you still care

You grew up on the streets of Buena Vista
With your Rush cassettes and your Mr. Mister
But no one really fights for the
Average guy these days
So you lift your voice in the wilderness
Find the closest micropub on your GPS
Cause the world needs to know
'Bout the one that got away

Yeah, I know; no one buys CD's
Your Spotify royalties, just a tease
And you're wondering where you gonna get your next big sushi meal
And no one's writing real country songs
But you grew up with Foreigner, singing along
To "Double Vision," you're fishing,
For something kinda real

And the only ones who listen to
your kind of music are the
Other guys making the same kind of music in their
basement, with GarageBand
You can stream it by tonight on SoundCloud.
And no one wants to pay anything but exposure
But if we do a full financial disclosure
How many white guys singing "Wagon Wheel" makes a crowd?

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from Round 15, Week 5, released July 31, 2017

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