Songs for Saturday: When I Go

[mdlbear]

Over Labor Day weekend I moved from a software development job at Ricoh eWriter Solutions, back to R&D at Ricoh Innovations. The preceeding Wednesday morning, as part of my weekly status report, I sent around email pointing to a farewell document, When I Go - Steve Savitzky's Farewell To EWS.

The title was a blatant excuse to embed this video of Dave Carter's When I Go, performed by Pete & Maura Kennedy on YouTube. Go watch and listen. I'll wait.

I love that song. Talk about New Song Energy -- of course I tracked down the chords, downloaded it, and learned it. I earwormed it for nearly a month.

Here are Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer performing it live. It wasn't my first whirlwind romance with a Dave Carter song -- I vividly recall practicing "Gentle Arms of Eden" on Naomi's bed, about an hour and a half before we first performed it in pubic, at Consonance 2009. Why don't I have the audio for that one up? Hmm.

Anyway, that's my Second Songs for Saturday. Enjoy.

Comments

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Just read your farewell... holy $#|+! It sounds like some of my experience at Honeywell in the eighties, when they tried to run the "minicomputer" division they'd bought from GE the same way they ran their core HVAC business.

At one point, or various points, they decided on this project or that, "Hey, who needs tech writers? When the project's done we'll hire some on contract." Same with researchers & some software engineers. I was talking in the cafeteria one day with one of these, who'd been laid off and then hired back on contract... in the same office, doing the same work, but making (and costing Hwl) a lot more than he'd been getting on salary. "Oh," I said, "so you're terminate-and-stay-resident."

(If some of you don't get that... keep your mouths shut, or I'll start in on "When I Was a Boy".)

[mdlbear]

*grins broadly*

[donsimpson.livejournal.com]

Having never heard "When I Go" or any other song by Dave Carter, I followed your earlier link and ended up with my hair standing on end and my blood humming. Golly wow, that is high-impact stuff.

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

Somewhere in this house I have a live CD of Dave & Tracy at the Lyons Folks Festival that someone made for me. If I can locate it, and that is my plan, would you like me to make you a copy?

[mdlbear]

Yes, please!

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

Will you be at OVFF this year?

[mdlbear]

Unfortunately, almost certainly not. Conflikt and Consonance, though, definitely.