Todays ‘Behind The Song’ is “All I Need” off my last album “My New Normal”.
This song was written while in Dartmouth, NS for Music Business. I stayed in a place that use to be an old B & B. My room had awful Pink wallpaper with cracks and what looked like water damage. I called it my pink room of solitude. (I cannot stand pink btw) Spent many hours in that room strumming my guitar while watching the crazy shenanigans of Jessica Flecther on Murder She Wrote lol.
Besides the pink room of solitude that I sing about… there’s really no back story to why I wrote it. Sheer boredom I guess.
One fact about this song that I don’t normally share: I finished writing this song Mar. 22, 2013…had a nice long telephone chat with my Dad before he and my mom went out dancing that night. He asked me if I’d written any songs… I lied and said no as I was going to do a rough recording and send it to them after. Little did I know that after ending the call with my Dad that it would be the last time I’d get to speak to him. He passed away during the night/morning in his sleep and this song would be the last song I’ve written to date.
During the recording of this song and well the entire album… I played my Dad’s Martin Guitar on every track. (which my brother and I bought for him on his 60th.) It was the only way/thing I could think of by paying tribute to him.
Another little fact but regarding title of the album: My mom wanted me to go to a grief counseling group session with her, I really didnt want to go and at the time was having difficulty coming up with an album title. After saying yes to going.. the first thing that the counselor said was “Welcome to your new normal”.
And that’s when the title “My New Normal” came to be.
You can listen to the track here:
https://jamierumley.bandcamp.com/track/all-i-need
Enjoy and have a great week. If there’s a song of mine you’d like me to discuss, leave a comment below.
Cheers,
Jamie
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