Jun 8, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min · 13 segments
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Bronson ArroyoGuest
Jim DayHost
And almost there's times when I can play the guitar so light you almost don't even barely know it's there-
the-Lyrically, these last, these last two records, uh, uh, on the, the latest record, uh, [laughs]
Uh, and it makes you, you think, um, the cadence that you have, uh, the timing that it, that you have, and I know some guys write by formula lyrics-
... just at least some chords that have some sort of rhythmic, m- my way of strumming it, right? And I'm hearing some sort of a melody, and it has a mood to it, and it, it might feel like, okay, this is a song about somebody who died or maybe this is a cheery song.
So I already have that and I have usually an idea or a topic that I want to tell Joe that we wanna write on, and then he plays with them just for a couple of minutes, and the first couple of lines of a song are really hard to get because that is, you're cementing your melody for your verses and also just the first line is hard.
I don't know why, but it- it's, it's hard to get into a story that doesn't feel cheesy or that maybe y- y- you're trying to tell some information, but not too much information, and it's, it's hard.
And usually when he writes the first line, he always writes the first couple lines before I can help him.
And almost there's times when I can play the guitar so light you almost don't even barely know it's there-
the-Lyrically, these last, these last two records, uh, uh, on the, the latest record, uh, [laughs]
Uh, and it makes you, you think, um, the cadence that you have, uh, the timing that it, that you have, and I know some guys write by formula lyrics-
... just at least some chords that have some sort of rhythmic, m- my way of strumming it, right? And I'm hearing some sort of a melody, and it has a mood to it, and it, it might feel like, okay, this is a song about somebody who died or maybe this is a cheery song.
So I already have that and I have usually an idea or a topic that I want to tell Joe that we wanna write on, and then he plays with them just for a couple of minutes, and the first couple of lines of a song are really hard to get because that is, you're cementing your melody for your verses and also just the first line is hard.
I don't know why, but it- it's, it's hard to get into a story that doesn't feel cheesy or that maybe y- y- you're trying to tell some information, but not too much information, and it's, it's hard.
And usually when he writes the first line, he always writes the first couple lines before I can help him.
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