The Cattle Ranch

First Take Friday - Episode 50
The Cattle Ranch
Written by Jonathan Brader

Tale of the Tune:
Last week I had surgery to repair a hernia, so I was not able to sing this week.  I recorded this song (and 9 others) prior to my surgery. I was hoping that I’d be good to re-record them this week as the songs I recorded were 100% freestyle, as you can tell.  This is often how I write songs. I just start making stuff up and if I can record them it makes it really easy to re-write them (sometimes I’m sitting on my porch or nowhere near my phone so I have to remember what came out, which is difficult). I was not physically able to re-write this one yet, so you get the freestyle version.
 
So, I recorded 10 songs (all freestyle) to eventually be a set of songs for an album that tell the tale of Cowboy Dan, a Navajo cattle rancher in New Mexico, back in 1875.
 
If I’m able to sing next week, I’ll likely re-record episode 51, but who knows, maybe I’ll keep it true to the song-writing process and show you how I write songs. That is still TBD.