JOHN DREWS IS BACK ON PIANO, AND GRAHAM BROWN DEBUTS ON SAX, ON MICK NADIN'S "CUTTIN' LOOSE"

Cuppla weeks back, we had wrapped up Mick and Manny's 'Potential' (see post below) and were close to packing up. Mick said he had a new set of lyrics pretty much ready to go, so we started messing with it based on an acoustic piece of Manny's.  It sounded pretty good right from the get go and we thought we might focus on it the following week. 

What was different was that Graham Brown, until now the PBGB percussionista par excellence and frequent songwriter, was tootin' on his saxophone. Graham has been learning sax for a while now and indeed has taken it on stage a few times with the Bega District Big Band. But he has not, until now, brought his sax into The PBGB Shed. Well he has now, and you can expect to hear more of it on future PBGB ditties.

 

Meanwhile, before the following week rolled around we got a phone call from our old stompin'  brother John Drews. John said  he'd like to drop by The Shed sometime and say hello. Well we hadn't had a visit from John for three years or so, so we said "Sure, absolutely, come on down" .  Sure enough, the following Monday there was John's van at the Shed door and in he came with his new electric piano. Great !

 

We put two and two together, and realising that John would latch on to Cuttin' Loose lickety split we decided to spend the afternoon trying to get it down. And we did just that. Three, maybe four takes, and there it was !  Well, in truth, Graham was away on the day so we added his sax part the week after. 

We were very pleased with ourselves. It was great to see John again and we loved the spice he added to Mick's song. And Graham did a fine job on the baritone sax.

 

See what you think..........click HERE for a listen.

 

The song is pretty self explanatory.........the lyrics tell the story........."Cuttin' Loose from this crazy world, worn out scene, hit the track, ain't comin' back, won't look back". Everybody gets the blues sometimes !!

 

Mick Nadin wrote the lyrics and sang

Manny Aigner wrote the original music

John Drews played the keys

Graham Brown played the sax

Neil Porter played the guitar and produced

Louise Nadin played bass

Pete played the drums