I don’t have any songs that start with X or Z so we’re going to finish our trip through the alphabet with Your Turn to Fall. I co-wrote it with Ronnie Jeffrey. Listen the the MP3:

Since this is the last installment of the series, let’s get into some detail about this one.

The central line in the song is “Your face is familiar, But I can’t recall your name girl.” This line came from a button my sister gave me back in the day that said “The face is familiar, but I can’t recall my name,” which was fun to wear to the wild parties of my misspent youth. Every other line in the song is built on that line and that idea. The “All my friends have become strangers” line is, of course, borrowed from the title of the excellent Larry McMurtry book.

By the time we wrote this song, Ronnie and I had pretty much decided to write mostly blues and blues rock- we both love the blues, but it’s easier to get songs on records if they are country. Once we stopped trying to write to get recorded, we started doing some really good stuff.

As with many writers, it is not uncommon for several of my songs to be different perspectives on the same person or event. Even though they are completely different songs, this one and Beer Buzz are about the same girl. In fact, in some strange way, I am really telling the same story twice.