I dabble in slide, usually using an ambiguous two-note open tuning to keep the major/minor issue easily moot. But, once in a while, the tinkering trips into a basic progression, such as this voiceless voice memo.
It began as an abstraction, I’ll call it — a musical thought that just rolls along in the head for a long time without being acted upon.
I could also call it laziness, but it isn’t chased down for a number of excuses. Guilt gets involved, as does diffidence & other hobbies.
About a month after this instrumental was memoed in 2019, the 1985 phrase “I heard you from a window” was floated as an opening line idea, but continued to drift as more of an unfinished notion, simmering off-&-on in a few different incarnations for four more years.
When I was three years old, you played a show at my parents' house in Lawrence, Kansas. I'm seventeen years old now and a fan of your music. Songs like "Brief & Boundless" evoke such a distinctive feeling--like warm light through a grainy lens. I hope to see you live again someday.
Surely this tune has legs - too good to just languish here!