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First Time Behind the Wheel

from Seed by Todd Burge

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    SEED
    A Community Collaboration (if you please)


    SEED
    As I release my 15th solo album, and Lisa and I prepare to be “empty nesters”, I believe I’ve landed on a creative way to celebrate this time in our lives. I hope this album finds us creating something together. It’s intended as a collaboration between you and me. Something that will spread, germinate, grow, flower, then go to seed, and start again. Hopefully, it’s a jumping off point for you. A kickstart for your muse. Whether you are a songwriter, poet, painter, videographer, photographer, potter, dancer, sound engineer etc. I will make the lyrics available to you, for you to manipulate, change and separate at will. The songs and melodies will be made available to sample. The audio tracks will be made available for overdubs and remixing. Grab a line or verse and write your own song or paint your own picture or write your own poem, or melody. Maybe you’ll choose to cover my song and make it your own. Let’s see where the Seed takes us, and later, let’s release our collaboration and we’ll call it,
    FLOWER.

    If you are interested in this unique collaboration, email me toddburgemusic@gmail.com


    Where Did This SEED Come From?
    These songs seemed to be “handed to me” like little gifts from various sources. A few were challenges from The Song Colony*, an open group of writers who meet each month in Marietta Ohio at The Stage Door. At the end of each session, we spontaneously pick one word to use as a jumping off point for a song. We call it the “Quick and Dirty”. The assignment is to spend one hour or less on a song, and the goal is to write whatever comes to mind, without the pressure of feeling it should be precious, or a “masterpiece”. We are simply working the songwriting muscle, and as a result, happy accidents occasionally occur. Hundreds of songs have come out of this group using this method.

    Other songs from Seed are playful challenges from friends. Pig came from my late friend Mark Scohy saying to me, “there aren’t enough songs about bacon”. Weed and Keep Your Clover Bloomin’ came to me while I was doing yard work, and a couple others came from words I saw in a book called 300 Drawing Prompts.

    There’s no wrong or right way to approach this project. No rules, no limits.
    I hope you will join us. Some have already started!
    If you are interested in this unique collaboration, email me toddburgemusic@gmail.com

    Thank you!

    Todd

    SEED by Todd Burge
    Recorded August 2023 at Bunj Jam Studio – Parkersburg WV
    Mixed by Sean Sullivan – Nashville TN www.seansullivanaudio.com
    Mastered by Justin Perkins - Mystery Room Mastering

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First Time Behind the Wheel

There’s just no way to measure
The exact amount of pleasure
Or pain I gained or lost along the way

My first path was dirty
And it gradually got gritty
But, the gravel as I’ve traveled smoothed away

As a teen, I was king of all manly things
A know it all who didn’t know
He was new to it

Now as I get down to it
Lookin’ back on my youth
And it
Seems unreal to feel this, yet I feel

It’s my first time behind the wheel
My first time behind the wheel
It’s my first time behind the wheel

We crawl then we walk
We babble then we talk
We suck then we chew
On the nightly news

We finally make the grade
Find lust
Get laid
If bad luck doesn’t get in our way

Some first or second dates
Lead us to pro-create
And we rinse and repeat this
All through history

When we finally get a grip
The grip somehow slips
Then we regret what was not ours
To regret

It’s my first time behind the wheel
My first time behind the wheel
It’s my first time behind the wheel

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from Seed, released November 18, 2023
Recorded August 2023 at Bunj Jam Studio – Parkersburg WV
Mixed by Sean Sullivan – Nashville TN www.seansullivanaudio.com
Mastered by Justin Perkins - Mystery Room Mastering
©2023 T.Burge Bunj Jam BMI

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Todd Burge Parkersburg

If it’s been discovered by man, West Virginia’s Todd Burge has written about it. A born ponderer and observer of life, each of his songs tells a story. Whether drawn from personal experience or a tale of poetically woven fiction, you’ll live every second of it through his songs. ... more

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