coastal alt/indie rock

​​Field Notes​​

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"Bite from Your Apple" was inspired by my Taylor Baritone acoustic. If you read enough of my field notes, you'll see that's a common theme. I often say that every guitar (actually, every instrument) has a song (at least) in it. Any guitar I've ever bought or borrowed inspired at least one song. My Baritone has inspired a number of songs.

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A baritone guitar isn't just lower in pitch, it's emotionally and psychologically different - darker, swampier, sexier - to my ear. 

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So the opening riff that I was playing around with one evening took me in that direction. I knew the riff was a solid verse progression. I was mumbling nonsense to capture the melody... and then I reached the chorus and the words popped straight into my head:

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i wanna take another BITE FROM YOUR APPLE

i’m ready as hell to get right back in the saddle

(we’re) gonna break these chains and we’re gonna shake these shackles

i wanna take another BITE FROM YOUR APPLE, yeah

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That courses provides a destination, and then you just have to finish the puzzle. Who am I talking to? Where are we? Why do I want enough bite? What are the stakes of this relationship?

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The answers? You and me are stand-ins for Adam and Eve. We're our own garden of Eden. Apples taste good.

And - oh - just life and death, good and evil, sacred and sin... 

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i’m sure this means of the fall of me

and I’m landing right beside the tree

cause even paradise, baby, comes for a fee…

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Just another song in the life of rock and roll...