The Whiskey Sessions started when three old (by this point) musicians met to get reacquianted and drink som whiskey. The whole think quickly turned into a recurring even about booze, music, and on-the-spot creativity. We get together, pop the cork, and get cracking on writing a song. The goal is to compose, write lyrics, perform and record an entire song in a single evening, preferably before the neighbors start banging on the wall or the audio interface burns up.

We often mix and master when we've had a chance to sober up, but we are proud to challenge ourselves to achieve all of this in a short period of time. And it's a lot of fun too......

See below for music, lyrics and photos from each time The Whiskey Sessions have met, in reverse chronological order. Click on a title to see more information about that specific song, and please leave a comment. We hope you appreciate our music!

To get in touch, please don't hesitate to write to us at: whiskey [at] johno [dot] se

2010-02-06

the ballad of chicken boy.mp3 (mix: johno)

-lyrics

		he woke up on a sunday morning
		heard the goddamn rooster crow
		another day of feeding chickens
		and watching the barley grow

		he was the son of a chicken farmer
		but he couldn't really stand the smell
		he had a dream of going farther
		all the way to the NFL

		but when he was in highschool
		he was kind of build like a chicken
		he never made it on the football team
		so everybody told him
		'you should forget about the pigskin...'
		but he held on to his dream

		eleven herbs and spices
		was the secret recipe
		it was his family's fame and fortune
		it was his goddamn legacy

		he said
		'I'm sick of the brain-ass Colonel
		any more and my brain'll explode
		enough! enough!'
		he kissed his ma and he left Kentucky
		made his way down the country road

		with a little bit of whiskey
		and a whole lot of moonshine
		he kept on walking towards the sea
		he ended up in Moscow and he thought
		'how the fuck I get to Russia!?!?'
		but he was in Tennessee

		after a whole lot of crazy adventures
		that is too say eventually
		he ended up on the streets of Nashville
		and met a girl name of Maddy Lee

		at the time I was still a waitress
		but I sang at the Haphn� Hall
		for a month he was my lover
		he gave me up 'cause he loved the ball

		he went to Mississippi
		and he spent some time in Texas
		he headed out west to Mexico
		I guess you're kind of wondering
		was he still thinking 'bout the football
		but I guess we'll never know
                

After a session on new year's eve only produced an out-of-tune jam we felt it was time to write something. johno had an idea that was inspired by the music in the game Gluey that Mad had played an entire day. It ended up being Maddie-Lee's second country hit (be sure to check out Needle In The Haystack).

Peen feel asleep in the sofa and Mad worked hard on her accent under stringent critique from johno. It's a ballad about a boy raised as a chicken farmer in Kentucky who dreams of something more... We even learned a bit of american geography; did you know that there is a Moscow in Tennessee?