MUSIC FOR JANUARY 2023

‘THE OTHER ME’

Slow sad songs constituted much of my output after I resumed songwriting, in 2010, after a 12-year layoff. So when I started this song, in 2016, it was time for something upbeat. Typically for me, “The Other Me” is still wordy, overly self-referential and wry — bordering on bleak, actually — but it has a good beat and you can dance to it. And if Hank Williams provided a spark of inspiration for the lyrics, things always go a bit better with a hint of the Monkees. (Or is it Stevie Wonder?)

I wrote most of the lyrics in the bar of the Samoset Resort, in Rockport, Maine, while Gretchen Schaefer, my partner in life and music, was showing her original mosaics at a craft fair there. Performing as Day for Night, we recorded this version at Quill, a coffee shop in Westbrook, Maine, in August 2018.

Hear “The Other Me” below! Buy it on Bandcamp! (“The Other Me” copyright © 2016 by Douglas L. Hubley. All rights reserved. Banner image by Doug Hubley. Day for Night image by Jeff Stanton. All rights reserved. )

 

 

MUSIC FOR OCTOBER 2020

 

‘(WAITING FOR A) WESTBOUND TRAIN’

In lieu of actually being able to ride a train this year, for October 2020 I’m showcasing “(Waiting For A) Westbound Train.” Written in Colorado in June 2019, the song is performed here in a September 2019 rehearsal by Gretchen Schaefer and me — aka Day for Night. Learn more: Day for Night on ReverbNation.

 

(Waiting For A) Westbound Train