This tune was composed by a friend, Chris Wilhelm, for his daughter. I first heard Chris play it at a guitar gathering, and was immediately struck by the tune. Years later, I took a cruise up the Inside Passage, stopping in Ketchikan, Alaska, where Chris lives. He met me at the dock, bringing a couple of guitars in the back of a pickup truck, and we sat by the water as he showed me how to play the tune. I've been enjoying playing the tune ever since. Chris originally recorded the tune on a CD called "The Cedars of Ketchikan". I first recorded it for my Laurel Mill CD, and an updated version is also now on Spotify, etc.
Here's the story behind the tune, straight from Chris: "I was fretting around the house while my wife reclined and enjoyed her 38th month of pregnancy and I could do nothing to ease her transition into motherhood. I was filled with a need to do something, and smoking cigars was out of the question. I sat down and tuned to DADGAD and the song came out in a matter of 20 min. I had worked out a couple of the themes before but never united them. Once together, a couple of ideas clicked and the arrangement you hear was conceived. After running through it a few times it consolidated in its current arrangement! Unlike most songs I have written, this one came easily and without a lot of hard choices. Once it had unfolded itself, I heard my wife snoring softly. My daughter was born shortly thereafter. Since we already knew the gender of her (our first child) I named the tune for her and she has always liked it. " - Christopher Wilhelm.
Played here on a Kathy Wingert model E, recorded with a pair of Schoeps CMC6/MK41 mics.
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12 сен 2024
