{"id":3119,"date":"2018-02-12T00:16:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T00:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/speaktherights.com\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2018-02-12T12:53:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T12:53:31","slug":"50-years-50-days-day-16-need-call-jefferson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midwestfootballwriter.com\/?p=3119","title":{"rendered":"50 years in 50 days Day 16…Need to call Jefferson"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 16th installment of my heading toward my 50th birthday.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I know a few days ago I referenced a wonderful circumstance of events that led me to find an old set of lyrics written by a special person who wanted me to score them.\u00a0 I tell you again, like I said earlier, I was not ready to do that when the piece of paper was readily handed to me those 15, 16, 17 years ago.\u00a0 Now…I am ready to do something with them.<\/p>\n

It is time to call Jefferson.<\/p>\n

Jeff Carpenter is one of greatest friends I have ever known.\u00a0 For whatever reason, I wish I knew, I am not the most social person that ever walked the planet.\u00a0 I delight in helping others.\u00a0 As a school counselor, I can do that and enjoy the success that is in the works.\u00a0 When I see a former student “make good” it only reaffirms what I saw before others did not.\u00a0 That is all I need.<\/p>\n

I met Jefferson, that is what I call him, in 1996.\u00a0 He was, reluctantly I would say, at my wedding reception 22 years and 1 day ago.\u00a0 At the time his wife and my VERY NEW BRIDE were working together.\u00a0 I am sure Mary had to drag him there.<\/p>\n

Three years later, after tragic circumstances, I was meeting up with Jeff Carpenter again.\u00a0 This time to record a song I had written in honor of the Indianapolis Colts in 1999.\u00a0 That Colts team, in Peyton Manning’s 2nd year, went from 3-13 in 1998 to 13-3 in 1999.\u00a0 I was writing songs then.\u00a0 I wrote one in honor of the Colts.\u00a0 I wonder if my dear friend and Colt aficionado, Adam Disque, knows this?\u00a0 I don’t remember playing it for him.<\/p>\n

I was a nervous wreck the day I walked into Jeff Carpenter’s Alfresco Place Studio to “RECORD” for the first time in my life.\u00a0 Funny…now when I am in his studio and recording a song I feel like I am back to my musical home.\u00a0 There is a peace there between Jefferson and me that is pure magic, bliss, karma, whatever you want to call it.\u00a0 When I am there I know I am where I need to be,\u00a0 providing I have a lyric sheet with guitar chords written on it.<\/p>\n

I have recorded properly with Jefferson on many occasion.\u00a0 In 2001 we did my first CD Leap of Faith.\u00a0 In 2004-2006 we did The Best Thing You Did Yesterday….and last year on my 49th birthday, he handed me the finished product of a 16 song project we had been working on.\u00a0 I have not pressed it and given it a proper name.\u00a0 In earnest I was waiting on this year…my 50th year…to perhaps record a couple more tunes and then pick out 14 of these latest to make a CD proper.\u00a0 Jefferson and I would like that.<\/p>\n

I owe him so much, Jefferson.\u00a0 Business wise, I have tried to do him right.\u00a0 When it comes to dollars and friendship, Jefferson and I have never had problems.\u00a0 I am thankful for that.\u00a0 I just wish I could pay him twice what I do.\u00a0 Recording ain’t cheap.\u00a0 Our friendship is priceless.\u00a0 If I had a million bucks, his studio with a handful of songs would be my first stop.\u00a0 I could write them.<\/p>\n

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Watching Rod Wurtele add keyboards.<\/p>\n

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Where the magic happens.<\/p>\n

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Rod, Jefferson, and me.<\/p>\n

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Rod is never there to have a bad time.<\/p>\n

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Barry King laying down some guitar.\u00a0 He is awesome.<\/p>\n

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Jeff and me talking it over.<\/p>\n

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A session in 2016.\u00a0 We look miserable, don’t we.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know what we were not thinking on this day in 2004.\u00a0 To my left were Tim Krekel and Jim Baugher working on songs I had written.\u00a0 This is still humbling to me.\u00a0 I wish I could call these guys up and get them in to Jefferson’s place in two weeks.\u00a0 I can’t.\u00a0 They are not with us.\u00a0 Why I did not get in a photo with these two makes me sad.\u00a0 But…I’d rather have this shot.\u00a0 Tim handed me that guitar during these session to clarify a few details.\u00a0 He was nervous handing it over.\u00a0 That is when you know you have a guy in love with his guitar.\u00a0 I doubt many played it.<\/p>\n

My love for music made sense thanks to Jeff Carpenter.\u00a0 I owe him more than I can ever repay.\u00a0 And now, thanks to Jackie Gayheart’s song, it is time to call Jefferson again.<\/p>\n

Speaking the rights…<\/p>\n

Danny Johnson<\/p>\n

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