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Singled Out: Jackie Greene's Shaky Ground

06/29/2010
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Welcome to Singled Out! where we ask artists to tell us the inside story of their latest single. Today Jackie Greene tells us about "Shaky Ground" from his brand new album "Till the Light Comes". We now turn it over to Jackie for the story:

I started writing this tune in the Fall of 2008. I had pages and pages of verses, but I didn't have a chorus. Each verse is a different character, sometimes from a different time and place. Time is a funny thing in songs. I feel like it's okay to jump around at random. I like to play with words sometimes. Mostly it's nonsense..."piano rain" was something I had written down and never got to use it before.

"Charlie" is my dog. I just sort of imagined a work dog and a farmer for the last verse. For some reason, it made sense to me.

The chorus came a bit later and I started making demo's of the song. My friend Tim Bluhm changed some of the words in the chorus and it ended up tying it together very nicely. Soon after, we recorded the final version of it. It all came together perfectly.

Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the album - right here!

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