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Background to Songs: No Poetry
Written by Jimmy
A Lou classic. And Jimmy’s first time solo on controls. And lots of trash talkin.
Lou’s Description:
I had a huge argument with my then-very-selfish boyfriend one day, went home and wrote a song about it, took it into the studio the following Saturday and Jimmy, aka “Buttons”, gave me the whole morning to lay it down. I think we rigged a mic up for the guitar and one for my vocal and we’ve used the first, angry take (which isn’t quite right, I don’t think – it would be neater to record guitar and vocal separately, but I ain’t no guitarist so you get what you get). And then I went back over what I’d recorded, still with my tired, morning voice, and threw some harmonies over the top, praying something decent would come out which, once Andy finished editing it, turned out miraculously to happen. And there you have No Poetry.
Jimmy’s Description:
Lou delivers songs at a pace of one each six months. That’s the bad news. The very good news is they arrive perfect and always emerge as the best song on the CD. We had closed the Studio on a Sunday. She had some time. I had some time. She had a song. Andy wasn’t around. So I had to set up the mic and press buttons. This was third take Lou on vox and guitar. She then did backing vox. And then Jimmy kept interviewing her with ‘tape runnin’ and we had a lot of funny chatter. We kept some in. We also love that she had so little confidence in Jimmy behind the buttons that she asked 3 times if we were recording. We were. I only kept in one question ot start the CD. So ‘are we recording?’ – a clear indication of Lou’s full and complete lack of confidence in Jimmy (about anything) starts the album output of the Saturday Morning Canasta Club. Rather fitting.