{"id":7471,"date":"2021-02-06T11:44:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T17:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=7471"},"modified":"2021-01-18T12:10:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T18:10:21","slug":"the-winding-stream-bluegrass-ballad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/the-winding-stream-bluegrass-ballad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Winding Stream &#8211; Bluegrass Ballad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FpIEnqodMx8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Words and Music by Conrad Askland (ASCAP). &#8220;The Winding Stream&#8221; \u00a9 1997 Conrad Askland.<\/p>\n<p>This was really fun working on a Final Cut video for this song, The Winding Stream. I wrote this back in 1997 for an artist who recorded it on the Road Records CD release &#8220;New Faces Volume Two&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What I imagined was that a long time ago, a woman&#8217;s heart was broken so she slashed her wrists. What the woman didn&#8217;t know is that there was a new love around the corner. She never got to meet that person or experience that love because, well, she ended her life before she could experience it.<\/p>\n<p>Now that woman travels the forests and sings her warning song of regret to other young hearts who venture into the forest.<\/p>\n<p>So my vantage point in this song is from a new young heart walking the forest and hearing this ghost sing her warning song. All of that information probably doesn&#8217;t come across with just audio, so it was fun for me to provide video to that story to help fill in the story a bit.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve released later in life that most of my songs have been written with a visual stage element in the mind&#8217;s eye. What I&#8217;ve found is that in my stage works this works very well with audiences. But when there&#8217;s no stage element, then often my music strikes people a bit cumbersome or hard for them to jump into.<\/p>\n<p>Also at the time I wrote this, I was in a relationship that was difficult for me. The lines &#8220;Your love was like a shallow crick, filled with twists and turns&#8221; was the best way I had at the time of describing that feeling.<\/p>\n<p>Personally this is one of my favorite songs that I&#8217;ve written. There&#8217;s a mixture of darkness and hope that I find very satisfying.<\/p>\n<p>Location. Location. Location. I had always imagined this story happening in a forest in Ireland or Scotland, because that&#8217;s where creepy and mysterious old stories happen. I use the tin-whistle on this song (like in the &#8220;Titanic&#8221; theme song) to give an Irish feel to it. But I didn&#8217;t want an Irish accent on this song. I like the straight-ahead American enunciation for Bluegrass. So, I guess that puts this story in the Appalachian Mountains or some forest where Bluegrass musicians might have walked. Some people say I over-think things too much&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In my journey with Final Cut video editing software, this is the first video where I&#8217;ve learned how to do effects on the video clips. I enjoyed giving a creepy vintage look to the bride walking the path with sepia-type filters and slow moving fog. The woman with the bouquet is the first time I&#8217;ve added an effect (sepia vintage) starting in the middle of a clip. I love the process. So much fun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LYRICS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your love was like a shallow crick<br \/>\nFilled with twists and turns<br \/>\nAn inner voice kept telling me<br \/>\nOur love would wash ashore<br \/>\nNow that winding stream<br \/>\nHas finally found its end<br \/>\nI never knew another love was waiting round the bend<\/p>\n<p>Wandering through the woods<br \/>\nGently kissed by morning mist<br \/>\nA maiden in a long white gown<br \/>\nCame floating through the leaves<br \/>\nHer pallid face gazed down<br \/>\nAt cuts upon her wrists<br \/>\nAnd as she gazed she sang about<br \/>\nThe pain that love can weave<\/p>\n<p>Your love was like a shallow crick<br \/>\nFilled with twists and turns<br \/>\nAn inner voice kept telling me<br \/>\nOur love would wash ashore<br \/>\nNow that winding stream<br \/>\nHas finally found its end<br \/>\nI never knew another love was waiting round the bend<\/p>\n<p>Her song lives in my broken heart<br \/>\nHer music haunts me still<\/p>\n<p>Your love was like a shallow crick<br \/>\nFilled with twists and turns<br \/>\nAn inner voice kept telling me<br \/>\nOur love would wash ashore<br \/>\nNow that winding stream<br \/>\nHas finally found its end<br \/>\nI never knew another love was waiting round the bend<\/p>\n<p>I never knew another love<br \/>\nWas waiting round the bend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words and Music by Conrad Askland (ASCAP). &#8220;The Winding Stream&#8221; \u00a9 1997 Conrad Askland. This was really fun working on a Final Cut video for this song, The Winding Stream. I wrote this back in 1997 for an artist who recorded it on the Road Records CD release &#8220;New Faces Volume Two&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-1Wv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7478,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7471\/revisions\/7478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}