{"id":1171,"date":"2014-04-08T12:24:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T19:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2015-09-20T17:33:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T00:33:26","slug":"scared-of-the-light-acoustic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2014\/04\/08\/scared-of-the-light-acoustic\/","title":{"rendered":"Scared of the Light [acoustic]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A quick rough draft of a song written for the RPM Challenge<\/strong><\/a> — on the last day. This is not that version — it was really, really,\u00a0really<\/em> bad, we are talking laughably so — but rather \u00a0this is an acoustic version I recorded for posting to the Internet Archive (the content home of AYoS). The lyrics are unchanged and the melody, or what passes for it, little so.<\/p>\n

Backstory: I jotted down the title for this song while watching\u00a0the “Swan Song” episode of the old Columbo TV show sometime last year. In it, Johnny Cash plays a gospel singer who is also a murderous sinner. The episode leads off with a rousing ‘live’ version of “I Saw the Light,” his character’s big hit of the moment. Many months later, while I was dragging a song out of a clever potential title on the last day of the RPM Challenge — having completely forgotten the inspiration — I took a break while recording to watch a little TV.<\/p>\n

There aren’t a whole lot of the Columbo episodes, which were shot as ‘two hour’ specials for airing a few times a year. I’ve gone through them on Netflix twice now and that day, on the 28th of February, finishing “Scared of the Light,” up came Johnny Cash and I quickly realized that the episode had been the inspiration for the song sometime last year and… well, dang… the circle is unbroken…<\/p>\n

Two more versions will follow shortly, each very\u00a0<\/i>different. Stay tuned.<\/em><\/p>\n

Scared of the Light<\/strong><\/em>
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