I wrote this track as part of an album of Americana tracks that I’m working on, drawing influences of Rockabilly, Boogie Woogie, Western Swing, and Honky Tonk. For this track I even used a lapsteel guitar in C6 tuning to get that classic sound. I thought that it worked well against the Gretsch as a call & answer type of sequence with the main melody, like something you would have heard late 50s dance band.

I wrote this track at the request from a publisher looking for “chill” mandolin instrumental tracks. When I was writing this piece I was thinking of our new grandbaby LucyMae and tried to write something that sounded like a lullaby like the instrumental music we would play for our girls when they were babies, holding them while we rocked them to sleep. I was thrilled to hear back from the publisher who accepted my track for their exclusive library.

One of the libraries I’m working with was asking for some relaxing Ukulele music to add into their catalog. I came up with this piece using several Ukulele tracks and acoustic guitar. There are two versions below. The first version was the original track I came up with. The publisher asked me to make it more “chill” and so I dropped the tempo and re-recorded the track with just a single Ukulele part. This remix version is the one that the publisher ultimately liked the best and licensed for their catalog. This track has been licensed exclusively to Epitome Music.