Song Title: I Need You Now
Original Artist: Smokie Norful
I figured I should provide something a bit different for this blog post considering how I have recently neglected this blog by reason of my record setting busyness over the past few months. So here’s a little background concerning what you are hearing. Since finishing college and subsequently leaving Michigan to reside in Spokane, my opportunities for singing ministry have been slowly becoming a bit more consistent. When I was in college I enjoyed a extensive array musicians to choose from to accompany me, including my buddies from my high school singing group who all play an instrument very well. I never once had to sing with a background accompaniment track, and as a matter of fact my view of background tracks grew continually negative. I started thinking of them as being somewhat cheezy, but since moving to Spokane my choice of skilled musicians slimmed drastically. At first, of course, I had no options. Now I know a few capable people whose schedules rarely coincide with my sometimes spontaneous singing appointments. So I slowly had to lay aside my spite for background tracks and embrace them as a savior from a lonely, plantation style acapella performance.
Now because of my substantial collection of background tracks coupled with a recent desire to try out the different recording softwares on my computer along with my small mixer I have decided to create an original bootleg rendition of a few songs in my collection. WARNING: You will be disappointed if you hope to hear some vast departure from the interpretation of the artists that originally recorded and performed these songs. My goal in this exercise as a developing singer is to seek to match the original artist’s quality of delivery while taking a few liberties for some personal expression where I feel its appropriate. Of course this homemade recording will not be capable of holding a candle to the original recording’s sound quality.
I have chosen for my first bootlegged rendition a song made popular by gospel singer Smokie Norful, or perhaps the song that made Smokie Norful popular, “I Need You Now”. Smokie first caught my attention with this song when I was a freshman in college. He has since joined my personal elite list of artist that inspire me vocally and influence my singing style.
Well hope you find this to be delightful and interesting till I have the necessary time to come up with something more creative and original.
You can purchase and download the original recording of this song here at Amazon.com’s mp3 download site: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000TDIEBK/ref=sr_f2_album_1?ie=UTF8&child=B000TDB354&qid=1214722572&sr=102-1