Chuck Puckett's Song a Week Project
Last updated 4 January, 2012.
The Last 2011 Video: Let Everybody Know
This week's tune (#52, the last in the series) is "Let Everybody Know". This is the last song of the 2011 project, though I know we'll be adding more next year. Just not every week :) Thanks for hanging with me on this endeavor. It's been a little spotty, but the songs are the songs, and I make no excuses for their inception nor their execution. Perfection was not my goal. It's simply a thing I am compelled to do, and I hope some of you have enjoyed at least some of them, for whatever reasons they may have struck you. I especially want to thank Clark Williams and Jason Morgan for their year-long dedication to the project, as well as my daughter Ruthie for her incomparable vocals, and good buddy Shelley Heard for the songs he's contributed mandolin. Also Richard Eade for his technical advice as well as his guitar on a couple of the early SAW videos. It's been a rewarding experience, and a lesson in discipline, to make these weekly videos. As this last song says, I wanted to "Let Everybody Know" this music existed. And to all my good friends, I really would like to take everybody home. And no, never leave you alone. Best of luck to you all, and thanks for listening.
Hi! My name is Chuck Puckett, and I've been inspired!
Inspiration is always dangerous, but there you go: you have
to live with it. What's the nature of the inspiration?
Starting on January 1, 2011, I've embarked on a project to
post one original song to YouTube each
week. How long? Until the twelfth of never or the well runs dry or the cows come home or the
creek don't rise. This idea of pumping out creativity on schedule
may
seem counter to the Muse, but the opposite is true: deadlines can help to light the illusive fuse. The songs will cover a pretty wide range of styles,
because that's how I work. I write folk songs, blues,
ballads, show tunes, reggae, rock: whatever shows up in the
receiving station of the mind, sent from the Great Beyond.
And nothing exists in a vacuum. We all have influences. Mine
include Dylan, Garcia/Hunter, Paul Simon, Lerner/Loewe and a
host of others. 99% of all art is synthesis, I think. Far
less than 1% arises from the void. Please check back each week to see (and hear) the
latest tune. If you'd like to receive an email notification when the
latest video is posted, you can
sign up here. Or
send me an email, and I'll sign you up. These videos have been recorded in
various venues and with varying personnel. Many are just me
playing my guitar in my study. Some are me in conjunction with
friends, in the living room or wherever we found convenient. Many of these tunes are songs I've had with me for some
time, many years in some cases. Many are brand new,
written as part of this project. You can check out all the efforts
to date by clicking
Past
Videos. If you have any comments, criticisms, or
questions, please contact me at:
charlesgpuckett@gmail.com
