ABOUT:
Any Where
The song arrived on a beach between St Thomas and Cocane,
New Brunswick, across from a great B&B we were staying
at during a high-contrast, 10th.
wedding anniversary weekend. On one hand, we had a much
needed, quiet time together away from home. On the other
was an amazing Rolling Stones concert with 80,000 others,
and through it all was the sad knowledge of the immense
suffering caused by Hurricane Katrina.
We were glued to the bad news for days and shaken by the
pain we saw there. Our repressed memories of Hurricane Juan
(hard for us at the time but nothing at all compared to
Katrina) came back and we realized how lucky we really
were, then and now.
Eventually, we turned off the TV and kept the bookings we
had made months in advance. My wife believes we had a
conversation during the drive about how no matter where we
were or what was going on in our lives, we’d still be
together and we’d still like each other.
The B&B owner was perhaps a decade older than us, and
had recently decided to get married on that weekend, in
exactly one year. The first morning there, I awoke early
and took the guitar to the beach hoping to snag a new song.
The verse music arrived first with the word
“anywhere” popping into my head when I played
the A minor 7th
and B
minor chords. As I was leaving the beach I realized I had
likely stolen the sequence from a tune that was finished a
few weeks before called “The Slow One”.
Upon returning home, back to the TV coverage and our lives,
the descending G music section and all the words arrived
within a day or two. It was hard, actually, to find words
simple and concise, almost like a nursery rhyme really,
that would keep the song heartfelt rather than sappy and
dull.
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