Andy Fite - Everyone Else Had Been Drinking (2013)

Tracklist

01. You Fooled Me
02. Heaven's Real
03. She Was so Pretty
04. The Only Person I Know
05. I Don't Know What You're Trying to Say to Me
06. You Know My Name and You Know My Number
07. An Ordinary Night
08. What I Can't Remember
09. A Reason
10. A Lousy Day
11. A Funny Thing
12. Lord, What a Party!



It happened early in 2013 that I noticed with some interest that the number of songs I have written (I started keeping track almost from the beginning, and I'm so glad I did-- it would have been chaos otherwise) was drawing tantalizingly near to the 500 mark, and I was duly tantatlized. So I thought, for the second time already, to avail myself of the cycle of 24 keys, and, as before, it worked wonderfully. The songs came quickly and pretty easily. The seed planted, it seems, it was just to water them a little and then dig them out.

The first twelve were written in the spring. From the first conception of the first tune to the release of the music took ten weeks. I felt so inspired!

The songs at hand (starting in E-flat major and winding up in D minor) were written in the summer and early autumn, and recorded in October. The album title, and the closing track, were inspired by the cover photo, taken by me in a parking lot in suburban Stockholm a couple of years ago. Sweet, serious creature!

Completing the suite didn't actually get me to 500. "Lord, What a Party!" is song number 498 in my catalog. I did get two more after that, but in the end they didn't seem to belong with these. I realized too late that getting to 500 did me no good at all: when you send out the promo bits, you can't say "Andy Fite has written 500 songs," it's got to be either Nearly 500, or Over 500. Right now I can't say anything!

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